fyi: Flagging is for comments that violate the HN guidelines, downvotes are for comments you "didn't like".

> If I come back to this thread in a year, I don't want to be confused.

Unless it's someone in power trying to cover something up, I think we should respect someone's decision to delete their comment. Just delete your own if it's now out of context.

Do you check back in a year?

> a (quickly deleted) snarky follow-up to jeremyjh's reply.

Good for them for quickly deleting it.