I’m getting annoyed with people that ask a question, have the community answer their question and troubleshoot over several days, only to delete their post and the solution.
The person asking the question is often providing the least amount of effort, so why should they have exclusive right to delete the contributions of others?
Possible fix: have a per-community option to only request deletion.
I appreciate this topic being discussed. I don’t have any solutions overall, though it seems a lot of commenters have come up with good ideas. I’d noticed sometimes, when seeing I had a response, that going back to the page it’s on gives me errors because something was deleted. I agree, it’s irritating at best, conversation-ending at worst.
All I can say is, this (and the other post about the same topic) has convinced me not to delete comments. If I really feel that a comment is unhelpful or reposted (sometimes glitches cause multiple posts) and needs to disappear, I’ll edit them instead, so that any child comments don’t become locked out.
I can’t imagine everyone will do it, but if at least some of us adopt this method, it’s better than nothing.