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This really depends on the subreddit/community
Some people like to delete their comments for privacy, because they want to move instances, etc. It doesn't make sense to have that remove entire chains of comments with it. I also don't think people intend for that to happen when deleting comments.
Mods should have a "nuke thread" button to autoremove all child comments when there's a mess like you said. Users shouldn't have that ability, even if they intended for that in the first place
This was the reason for this post. It has happened to me quite a few times already. When I take a bunch of time to make a well-thought-out reply and link a bunch of references in a discussion, I don't want all that effort to effectively disappear when the original commentor just decides they are embarrassed or don't want to continue and just nukes the thread.
Edit: typos
While I agree that mods should get a sort of mass moderation function, I still believe a user deleted comment hiding replies as beneficial.
If a person deleted their comments for privacy, they obviously are not nefariously trying to destroy a comment thread. Usually. However, if a person chooses to delete their comment for privacy reasons, what about comments that quote your deleted comment? The quote text doesn't get deleted. That's a privacy issue, is it not? Should all replies to a comment be string searched to delete quoted text? That would be a rather expensive API request. But, hiding the replies would help. A person would have to know who replied and go to their profile searching specifically for that quoted text to find it if the replies get hidden upon delete.
I guess if it was a privacy issue, it might be a different conversation. If that is the reason though, I think it's a weird way of solving the issue. Hiding it in the UI doesn't get rid of the content, and might make it harder for the user to find where that content is. If a user had private information in a comment and someone quoted that portion, they could then message the other user or ask the mods to delete it properly.
That's the problem though isn't it. They don't intend to destroy it but it happens anyways. So now even if someone wants to delete their own comment, there's an incentive to not do that since it would delete everything below it.