Either deleted or edited. Often times when I post in heated threads there are genuine points I'd like to persist so having an opportunity to edit them for repost once things calm down would be awesome. As is, once a moderator does stuff it just vanishes both from public view and my own view of my post history. It leaves a rather thud-like experience and no one's happy.
If the concern is with folks copy/pasting deleted comments and not letting an argument die, using the CSS rule "user-select: none;" would prevent that. It works with IE 10+ and the other major browsers. At least being able to see and edit my words into a new post rather than trying to think with whatever context was in my mind at the time let alone the actual words I typed would be greatly welcomed.
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Why not just CTRL+S and save the webpage (as an MHT/MHTM file or "Web Page, complete") immediately after you post? Or open a text file in Notepad or Textpad, Copy & Paste the relevant bits, and save the file with the topic name? Bonus: If you are using Textpad, you can compose your post in it, run spellcheck, and use a clip library to insert messageboard formatting ([b], [i], [url], etc.); you also have a copy if the server hiccups when you hit Submit Post or it goes down for maintenance.
Because maintaining an offline history of what I posts seems tiresome and overly tedious. I've put some thought time into a bot that watches threads that would be less manual work than that. I simply don't think Paizo would appreciate the additional load on their servers.
If you need a longer post recovered for reposting or for your own records, you can request this by emailing community@paizo.com. We do not have plans to provide this kind of feature.
Thanks, Chris