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

[ellf.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's really a horrid way to implement a commenting feature.

Nice going, LJ.

[ron_newman]

To be specific, only paid users can edit their comments. Furthermore, they can only edit a comment if that comment has never been replied to.

[diatomacearth.livejournal.com]

I think the restrictions on editing comments exist at least in part to prevent people from being able to significantly change the meaning of a comment after the fact in an argument. It has its downsides, but I don't think it's an unreasonable choice.