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I wrote a long thoughtful reply to a heavily downvoted post only to find the post had been deleted before I could hit submit, and I hadn't copied the text.
Yeah, I wish there was a way to delete a post with out deleting it to preserve comments.
Maybe an "abandon" feature. It removes your user name from public view and does a simple find and replace to remove your name in the comments. The post can live on, but now you have nothing to do with it. The user would have a "abandoned post" counter, this so we know if a user is constantly abandoning posts and can block them. Or put a hard cap, more than 2 a month = banned from posting until mod appeal. Posts with 0 comments face no penalty and are deleted.
Someone still needs to be able reference to the original poster for modding and blocking purposes.
Oof that is pain. I have started to just move to a local text editor when i realize the comment is getting long.
I have a window open in my preferred text editor that is perma-opened for ephemeral writing just such as you’re describing.
I have a specific file for this purpose too! For anything longer than 10 words really. I hate it when I accidentally hit enter in those little chat boxes.
I have textarea cache browser again installed (on desktop) for those rare cases where I want to recover text input.
I wouldn't attribute a fuckup on your end though. Just really unfortunate and depressing. Caused by someone else.
Eh, the mistake was in engaging with a post that was surely about to be deleted by the OP.