> So, someone deleted a couple 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.

> 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.

> 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.

> 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.

I will link to the post in that case: [Windows registry has hundreds of near duplicate entries][1]


  [1]: https://superuser.com/questions/1528617/windows-registry-has-hundreds-of-near-duplicate-entries?noredirect=1#comment2320029_1528617