On the Guardian website when a post is deleted they leave the name in place, but replace the post with "This comment was removed by a moderator because it didn't abide by our community standards. Replies may also be deleted. For more detail see our FAQs."

I'm very doubtful about the suggestion there's a "Brit-hating" rogue moderator around. Maybe it's truue that posts that don't merit censoring get censored, but I've never had a post deleted so far, to my knowledge, apart from in that deleted thread. Maybe I've just been lucky.