When context is lost, the site itself loses cohesiveness and that's detrimental to everyone, not just the author of the reply that's left in limbo.
You make it sound very dramatically. As if there are many wonderful, quoteless, replies to postings that were deleted. I think that hardly happens, if at all. In fact, if the entire thread that sparked this discussion had vanished, there would not be much of a loss.

I think it's more useful to the site if people can post here freely, and have the ability to remove or update content that could potentially make them look foolish, liable, loose their job, or whatever.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Taking away edit-own-nodes privledges. by Abigail-II
in thread Taking away edit-own-nodes privledges. by theorbtwo

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