The Grim Reaper had a lot of cleanup to do ... since the posts are gone now we may never know what they were.

Reaped nodes are still viewable, its just an extra click, or an extra user setting

And, yeah. I am actually, perfectly, serious.

I'm sure you are, but your entire statement is vague and unclear. It appears to me that you're merely restating your "argument", with extra mixed metaphors, implications, and emphasis, ipso facto

This is not persuasive, nor a well reasoned argument -- definitely not worth reconsidering.