A single person can already prevent a message from deleted, they can post a response. The only posts that are going to be autodeleted will be duplicates, so long as people all keep their comments to one post. This is a more-than reasonable scheme vroom proposes. =)

Hmm. This was supposed to be a reply to Corion. Doh!

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