But it could still be logged so they can look back if someone reports it. You could very well flame them or whatever dont get me wrong, But  if someone or that person sees it they will probably report it at once and there can be a  log through ip where admins can just look it up. And if they delete it before noone sees anyway that would be good. I mean what if some kid just got super mad an posted this mean reply to a kid. Then what if he rethiught it and decided to delete it before the kid saw it. Now as you were saying a kid might flame and he could just modify it to -removed- and an admin wouldnt be able to see that..(well they would but thats not the point) and lets say i make an app somewhere and want to dekete it, yes i can put -removed- but then theres just a post hangin there for a lifetime making clutter.