This thread is amazingly long for something so simple.
Also, it's hilarious that this board doesn't support actual deletion of comments in an easy and simple manner. It's like the mods are putting black duct tape over a stain instead of cleaning it.
I believe it is to preserve post count of those that replied.
there are better ways to preserve post count, but regardless of that fact, if someone makes a post that warrants deletion, should their increased post count REALLY be preserved? i'd much rather see those people get -1 but have everyone able to click the last page on a long thread and actually get to the last page isntead of 2 or 3 pages back because the deletions screwed with the thread structure. not sure if this hokey deletion system is default ipboard behavior or the result of a hack they installed, as this is the only ipboard forum i check