Question

It turns out that if you delete a comment, it also disappears from the Recent Comments page. But a comment threaded under it—which is swept away because of its parent’s sin, although in this particular case here the threaded comment itself was also one of the people of the condemned city and not merely an attachment—does indeed get deleted from the column, yet still has a monument standing for it on the Recent Comments page, as a name and remnant. And this shall be your sign: when I clicked on the comment from the Recent Comments page, I came up empty-handed and grew weary trying to find the entrance.

And much analysis is possible here regarding the status of a threaded comment: since it depends on the original comment, do we always find within it the power of the original comment to give it life, such that this is an ongoing matter, akin to agency? Or is it a matter of an act, akin to ordination, where at the birth of the threaded comment the power of the original is imparted to it, and afterward it no longer needs it? A practical difference would be whether the law of deletion, newly applied to the original comment, automatically also applies to the threaded comment; or whether only on the site the threaded comment cannot appear because the ground has been pulled out from under it, but it itself was not actually deleted, and that is why it leaves a trace on the Recent Comments page. And this is not the place to elaborate.