The difficulty wiht selective deleting is, if someone posts an inflammatory post, and is replied to by another member, and THEN the original post is deleted, then the ongoing communication in the thread gets disjointed. I much prefer the system of locking down a thread, but leaving those comments there for posterity. If nothing else, it allows everyone else to see what ridiculous fools those antagonistic posters have made of themselves, and to take any future postings they make with a certain objectivity. IF the poss were deleted, we'd never know who the trolls were out there, would we?

Just my tuppenorth.

jonTheCelt