So, someone deleted a couple of comments I made in response to someone else's comments. There was no messaging to me about when or why. That is totally uncool. This is censorship, pure and simple.
Your comments were flagged as no longer being needed by a community member. Since they were directed at a specific user, and that user read your comment, they were no longer needed to answer your question.
Yes what I said was argumentative. I provided a rebuttal to a viewpoint I disagreed with. I was not trolling, I did not flame, I did not use Bad Words.
I flagged the comments due to the fact they were argumentative. If I recall the situation properly, at least one of the comments, indicated that I had no read your question. From what I recall from our brief conversation, you didn't actually find my commentary particularly helpful, and you made that point clear.
I admit to the possibility that how I said what I said may have contributed more noise than signal to the conversation. I was looking for information and people were giving me assertions, assertions that run against my own experience. I was defending that experience. I may have been hasty in my response. I have used language not totally in keeping with diplomacy.
The comments that were deleted served their purpose. I read every single comment directed towards myself. You admit your comments were likely not part of civil discourse.
Here is the description of the flag I used on the comments in question.
"This comment is outdated, conversational or not relevant to this post."
Even if none of what I say here were true, even if my comments were groundless, mere diatribe. It is wrong to silently delete them.
Comments are designed to be temporary. Honestly, your comments were less than respectful, and I came to consider mine unhelpful. I have a certain understanding of the Registry based on my personal knowledge about how it works. Your comments indicate that understanding was incorrect, since you believed my commentary to be incorrect, and I wasn’t going to agree with that fact I deleted my commentary.
Since I had read your commentary directed towards myself, and no amount of discussion would change either of our minds, the conversation we had in the comment section wasn’t productive. Since the tone of your commentary was degrading, I decided to pull the rip cord, in a very uneventful attempt to help steer the discussion back to simply answering your question.
Stack Exchange has a feature for coping with a comment run that turns debatable, this common feature of human conversation, it's called "move to chat". Use it please.
Since I was 51% of the problem, and I didn't see any future in the conversation were having, I flagged the comments. If you want somebody to blame for the comments being delete you can blame me.
Now I don't care enough about these particular comments to have them reinstated. The point of raising in this in Meta is that the practice of silent removal of comments that are not abuse is wrong.
Delete comments cannot be restored. Commentary is temporary and once they are no longer required should be deleted.
I used the word "practice" because I've read similar complaints by other Stack Exchange users, some of which are now former users, in a number of places. I don't believe my experience represents a one-off mistake. This is also why I'm not linking to the question directly in post.
Since I feel it’s important the community is aware of what exactly you are talking about I will link to the post in that case: Windows registry has hundreds of near duplicate entries