Thread:RRabbit42/@comment-4691466-20130222014718/@comment-961279-20130224014342

In a situation like this where I wasn't there when the problem occurred, I have to hear both sides of the story in order to figure out what to do.

If you want to change what you previously said, it's better to edit your old message rather than removing it. A good way of showing that you've changed what you said is to leave it there, but surround it with the   and  , then add the new information afterwards. We can look at the history of an edited comment and see what changed, but this is an easy way of showing "I've changed my mind".

Removing a message makes it harder because it is harder to restore it than a regular edit, and removing someone else's message because you don't agree with what they said is kind of an abuse of editing privileges.