u/AtheistComic

My idea is to prevent posts and comments from being deleted (by their owner) that are either held or removed by moderators or Reddit, admins or anti-evil operations. This is good data for determining whether a user is a troublemaker, and also it allows moderators to have time to review something in their queue.

If a post or comment is held for review or removed by moderators, sometimes users will delete it. Sometimes this is to prevent moderators from viewing the post again in the future from the mod panel, because the user is trying to troll the subreddit or perform some level of harassment. Other times it's because the user thinks that a post or comment that is held for review was already removed, when it was pending mod approval.

If a user deletes their account, the comments and posts should remain intact so that they can be linked and reported as necessary or so that the original account posting can be flagged for ban evasion.

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u/AtheistComic — 15 days ago