User blog comment:PurpleStripedFudgeParole239/Why The People Involved In The Neutral Shipping Fight Are Being Stupid/@comment-4319470-20110917030141/@comment-2208586-20110917112545

Well, the whole thing is more to CHECK.

When someone curses someone else out and right afterwards when that person went and reported them to an admin and the person who cursed deleted that comment then there's kinda a problem. You can still edit your comment and ask an admin to delete it - the history of it will still be able to look at till the admin deletes it, so if someone curses someone out we can still check.

I believe this is the main reason.