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Removing a comment also makes it impossible for people to join and carry on the conversation. Or keep on upvoting . How can one reply to something they can't read?
In your particular case, replies such as "yes and let's also kill this other person" , " they deserve torture beforehand " , or "let's do it next Tuesday folks" will never see the light of day under that post. They'll have to first go read the mod log and then contact you via DM. And DMs are between two people afaik.
So the point of removing a comment isn't to erase the comment out of existence but just to prevent it from having any effect on people who haven't yet read it.
Are you using an app? Because you totally can still vote or reply to a removed comment on the normal web interface.
You can reply to a comment removed, but you can't read it unless you bother going to the log to check. If you don't read something you don't reply to it, do you? What do you say to a bunch of " comment removed by moderator "? Sure you can vote it too but again, you need to first figure out what it said, unless you're just voting at random.
Does the app matter?
I thought it might be because you said:
But it's very possible. It really just requires one extra step (looking up the comment in the modlog) and you can interact with it as usual.