No, by the point I was first thinking about whether or not to let the comment stand, there was no reply.
Oh, interesting. But why didn’t you retract it then?
The point is still defensible (as demonstrated in my reply @ruby) but not necessarily important enough to consume attention. Retraction doesn’t prevent a comment from taking up attention.
Interesting. I will have to think about that as a use-case for deletion as something separate from “retracting but harder”.
No, by the point I was first thinking about whether or not to let the comment stand, there was no reply.
Oh, interesting. But why didn’t you retract it then?
The point is still defensible (as demonstrated in my reply @ruby) but not necessarily important enough to consume attention. Retraction doesn’t prevent a comment from taking up attention.
Interesting. I will have to think about that as a use-case for deletion as something separate from “retracting but harder”.