Deletion (?) of posts makes too much content inaccessible

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Related to: http://code.google.com/p/lesswrong/issues/detail?id=295

Post link:
  http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/d6m/link_physicists_claim_neutrons_may_travel_to/

In this case I expect the post wasn't banned, but the same thing as in the 
above issue happened: all comment permalinks stopped working, and comments to 
that thread disappeared from user comment list (Overview, Comments pages). 
Example: 
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/d6m/link_physicists_claim_neutrons_may_trav
el_to/6v0x

I believe this shouldn't happen, comemnts that weren't banned or deleted 
shouldn't disappear. If the post, as I suspect, was deleted by the author, this 
hsouldn't permanently annihilate all comments to that post, including access to 
those comments by the comments' authors. 

This gives too much destructive power to the post's author. I prefer the old 
behavior where a post can only be disowned by its author and removed from the 
posts list, at most the post's text is removed. Other users' discussions 
shouldn't be affected, at least permalinks to individual comment threads should 
still work.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by robot...@gmail.com on 19 Jun 2012 at 9:30

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...and the author of that post confirmed that it was removed by the author, so 
it wasn't banned.

Original comment by robot...@gmail.com on 19 Jun 2012 at 10:54

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A clarification came up: the post was first moved from Discussion to Drafts, 
and only then deleted. This is probably what caused the hiding of all comments.

Original comment by robot...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2012 at 1:51

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Original comment by Matthew.Fallshaw on 3 Aug 2012 at 6:05