azurelunatic | Something I should suggest:

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Something I should suggest:

For maintainers/moderators only, the ability to see or get a notification when someone has *deleted* a comment in the area they control, and who it was who deleted it. I WANT YOU CRAZY JUST BECAUSE.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Notification on delete.

Notifications system sends out an alert when a post or a comment is deleted in a community, what it was, and who it was deleted by.

This would be available to maintainer/moderator of a community only, as it's not necessarily the sort of thing that would be useful or viable in a journal. (People make and delete comments all the time, but in a community, people other than the owner of the comment and the owner of the journal can delete the comments.) This would be useful for tracking abuse, especially when people are not supposed to be deleting comments by community rules.

Advantages:
Help maintain community better.
Help enforce community rules.
Fight abuse & drama.
See who it was who deleted a comment, whether it was the original poster or the owner of the post in the community.
See what the content was of a deleted post or comment, in case it was something that needed action.

Disadvantages:
You could see when someone posted something they didn't want seen.
Post-and-delete would *really* not be secure, not that it was anyway.
Hot hot typo action.
If misused, could lead to more drama.
Could be used to spam.

Implementation notes:
Should be available by community for all deleted posts, all deleted comments on any given post, and (in the future if/when an all-comment subscription comes out for comms) all comments, period.
Should be able to disable an "all comments" subscription for any given post, for any arbitrary reason.
Should be able to enable or disable for any given member of the community, like if there's a serial troll or serial deleter/drama h0r.

+ protects other community members from having their comments wantonly deleted by someone who's on a mad deletion spree because they don't like what the person said.