Ha! The thread go even worse while I was away. I started cleaning things up, but just a question: are users notified if I delete their post, then reply to it? A typical example would be:
- A: bad stuff
becomes
- A: (deleted)
- creator: I deleted this because, please …
Honestly the only reason I bother doing that is that the Ban reason is only shown to moderators, and I have no way to talk to the banned person to give them the reason myself (although they’d probably guess it anyway; but I want to add more details like “Please report instead of getting into a fight”). And I have other conversations with that same user in parallel that they may want to continue (I really see the point of directories now).
UPDATE: I realized that the Reply button disappears after deleting a post, but I could exceptionally still see it because I had already opened the Reply form… A bug, I guess. But that makes it a bit harder to give a post deletion reason (esp. if you don’t ban behind, which at least gives a reason to moderators).