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Since there's nothing at the moment to stop someone from
making an inflammatory comment then editing it to a
blank post or a 'sorry, duplicate, please delete', I
don't think that bein able to remove the post would add
any power in that way. It is nice when people use
Update:, but nothing keeps them from
not doing it (if this ever became a problem, perhaps
version numbers could be automatically included,as
demonstrated in this post).
If duplicate and blank nodes couldn't be posted, I
agree that it would be rare for someone to want to
delete a post. I can't think of an example this morning.
However, one way to handle it if it were needed, which
wouldn't break threads, would be to simply change the
text to "This node has been deleted by
<author|admin> [because
<reason>]", then add a note next to
the title that says Deleted. The
body text wouldn't need to show unless the node had been
specifically selected.
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