[Wowfunhappy]

> In my experience they show as [deleted] but I guess this is only for posts that have replies.

Kind of. Technically, posts that have replies can't be deleted, so what sometimes happens is the poster edits their post and replaces all the text with "[deleted]".

[krapp]

>Technically, posts that have replies can't be deleted, so what sometimes happens is the poster edits their post and replaces all the text with "[deleted]".

Which should also be prohibited, because it's just as destructive. You shouldn't be able to edit a post with replies either.

[Wowfunhappy]

I don't know, if my posts were locked after the first reply, my contributions to HN would be definitively worse. I almost always find confusing typos and grammar errors, and things that just could have been stated better, after initially posting a comment, and I use edits to fix those problems.

Yes, ideally I would just do more revising before posting a comment the first time, but I don't seem to work that way.

I think the two-hour window is a good compromise, and if anything I really wish it was longer. Yes it has downsides, but I really think they're outweighed by the good.