Is that a setting somewhere? Because that is not how it behaves on my end. Deleting a comment hides all replies.

No, I don’t want to delete others comments. I want others’ comments to not be deleted when the original commentor deletes the original comment that starts a comment thread.

This is what I want. How can I get this?

This was the reason for this post. It has happened to me quite a few times already. When I take a bunch of time to make a well-thought-out reply and link a bunch of references in a discussion, I don’t want all that effort to effectively disappear when the original commentor just decides they are embarrassed or don’t want to continue and just nukes the thread.

Edit: typos

Doesn’t CRPG stand for classic roleplaying game?