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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Content of deleted comment:

Try this comment that I'm going to delete.

I use boost as it shows deleted comments as "deleted by creator", but you can reply to deleted comments and when you do you can see and quote it

Just like I have now. So what I assume is happening is that the backend just marks the comment as deleted and leaves everything in place, and it's up to the front end to handle that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I've seen the back end, you're correct

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yeah - personally I don't mind it this way. To me, "Deleted by creator" is simply something more along the lines of, "I'd like to retract my previous statement".

Sometimes I get curious and reply to a deleted comment to see what they said, but generally I let it slide.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The problem with that is that comments that are removed by moderators behave the same way - that might actually cause legal problems if someone posts something that you're obligated to remove instead of just hiding it

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