Perhaps you would accept that no-one else was confused and that you just chose to pretend that you were to make a point?

As more posters than just me were confused - this perfectly demonstrates that it is confusing when posts remain in threads, that are responding to posts that have been silently deleted.

A simple resolution would be either the leave all the posts alone or if they really must be deleted - to always indicate and explain in an editing comment that a post had been deleted.