@ delete posts...not a fan 

needcreations_

> I would agree that preserving the comment and replacing the author with “anon472844” for example (unzappable btw), is probably a much more useful solution.

This is a reasonable compromise, I think.  If you wanted to make it even "better" you could use Llama to paraphrase the post to remove distinctive styling features.

>  I would like to point out that unfortunately the ephemerality of our face to face conversations is lost on the internet. 

This is the heart of it.  I absolutely understand the desire to have ephemeral conversations -- they're so important!  Our lives would be so much worse without them!  But the internet has different affordances and we shouldn't find a realistic way to inhabit them instead of pretending they don't exist.
