> The fact that you have now replied—which automatically disables comment deletion—is the only thing that prevented my removing it just now. So great job.

How was I supposed to know that you intended to delete it?

In any case, you may still have time to edit your comment, as I did with my erroneous root-level comment, since I can't delete that either, for the same reason.

Not interested. You also shouldn't have done that. You broke the thread—exactly what HN's no-deleting-comments-that-have-replies check was created to prevent.

Consider this: just stop being reckless.