Moderator post: Please don't delete your own comments

[ron_newman]

If you delete your comment after other participants have replied to it, readers who arrive later will have trouble following the conversation. Please try not to do this except to correct important typos such as addresses, phone numbers, and dates. Thanks. -- Your friendly co-moderator

Comments

[antimony.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest wording the typo exception specifically for that -- don't delete because you misspelled "the", delete-repost only if you made a typo that impacts sensitive information like addresses/names, and state clearly in the repost that it's a repost and why the original was deleted.

For anyone reading these comments who's fairly new to LJ -- deleting comments isn't just like deleting comments on other blogs -- the threading breaks down in ways it doesn't elsewhere. Which is why we all are mildly irked at it.

[ron_newman]

I changed the OP to reflect some of what you said here.