[COMMENT DELETED]

I'm just curious.  I've seen "[COMMENT DELETED]" on so many threads lately. Are these really censored remarks or are they some sort of purposeful anti-comments?

I think it is so other members know that a comment has been deleted so the following comments do not look out of place.

I think it is when you delete your own previous comment.  It is to keep some sort of continuity within the thread even if a comment is deleted.

Most other forums put some automatic text on edited posts showing when it was edited and by whom.  That would be a useful addition here, to eliminate the confusion. 

(edit: pages->posts -- and the strikethrough vbcode doesn't work here )

Well, I'm glad to learn I'm not the only one perplexed by, or at least unsure of, this recent phenomenon.

Wow, it does work!

On topics you can delete the post and it will always say [ Comment Deleted]

I have encountered a weird situation. Before commenting, I saw someone's comment being deleted ([COMMENT DELETED]). Then after commenting, I saw what the person wrote! I thought deleted comments couldn't be undone?

no comment

On Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen,

On Cupid,and Blitzen, and [COMMENT DELETED]

Pretty sad state of affairs that as a community we cannot censor ourselves and Big Brother (no offense Erik) has to remind us of our manners.

All of this was Nytik's idea !! I am ok with this but I thought it was only gonna happen to the original poster's first post only (if they decided to delete thier post) but that not the case.

 Yes. The way it went was:

- Originally, if the starter of a thread deleted his original post, the whole thread was deleted.

- People asked for a fix, so that the thread would stay around.

- They made this, but it looked weird (the 2nd post in the thread was "promoted" to first, and for all intents and purposes it looked like that was the original post the thread started with)

- Nytik said, "Well why don't you just replace it with a post saying (comment deleted)" or something similar

- They implemented that, and thought it was easiest / best if it worked the same way for all deleted posts, not just the first in a thread. And they capitalized the phrase...

yeah they got carried away did they ?!

Well, there is something to be said for it. Conversations can often look strange when comments are deleted without any notice, later in the thread as well. Though I'd like to see an exception for the last post in the thread, that can just be deleted.

Anyway, please get rid of the capitals! There's no need to shout the message.

If all the posts are deleted the thread could probably be deleted.

Scarblac's post is correct, that is a perfect timeline. [COMMENT DELETED] appears when you delete your own post, but I remember saying at some point that there was no need to shout it at us! 

How can an entire thread be deleted now ? Can only staff do this now ?

@ Nytik if you look at this 'click here'  (post 79) is a ladder comp. and most of the time i say "is done ", " no problem" so is was a good idea to delete my own posts to save some spaces.