Time for some more thoughts: what we already have in Discourse, for post-hoc self-serve cleanup of regrettable comments, is the ability to edit comments and posts. Replies can be deleted too, not just edited. Initial posts are trickier than replies: can initial posts in a thread be deleted? If so, the replies to a thread would be lost. Hence benefit in being able to edit the initial post, to not delete a thread others have participated in. Time limits on delete & edit I think the default time limit is 30 days? That should usually be adequate for more common sources of episodic disinhibitions: someone got drunk and posted bad stuff… There are different kinds of alcoholism, I don’t know how many of them end up having several days in a row of drunken disinhibition. Then, manic episodes: they can be short, they can be long… even as long as a month or two. And a manic episode could be followed by a depressive episode, for people leaning in the bipolar direction. I could imagine that depressive episodes might also be debilitating, delaying how long it takes for someone to be able to face the consequences of a manic episode, and go clean up any mess. My guess is, 30 days is enough for “almost everyone”; whereas significantly long manic episodes are hopefully rare enough that moderators could get involved and help out with any cleanup, if it’s also only happening once or twice (whereas they may tire of it if it keeps on happening again and again.)