Maybe I've missed something, but there's been an awful lot of people deleting posts lately. I've never really minded when Dan has done his occasional post deletion (always a hot topic in its own right), but this one really gets to me. Is the removal of posts an effort to erase from time and space the fact that participation in a thread ever occured? I like the fact that this board gives us the ability to edit our posts to correct typos or add clarification, but if this goes hand in hand with the ability to completely change what was posted, then I'm not sure it's a good feature to have. It seems that only inflammatory or controversial posts get deleted. I find this curious. As if the author wanted to stir things up then live little or no trace of their efforts. It seems to me that rather that deleting posts, we should think about what we write before we submit it.Almost as if once a post gets submitted it becomes "property" of the entire forum, which is of course owned by Dan. I'm sure there is more to the story here, and if so, could someone fill me in?

Dave