Is it an ethical decision or a technical one? Surprised they make no mention of it in their docs on managing disruptive comments.<p>https://help.github.com/articles/managing-disruptive-comments/
Probably more of an ITIL mindset. They should never be deleted, because this would be as if they never existed, but instead closed with an appropriate status.<p>It kind of trusts that people will generally do the right thing. I imagine they have a way to deal with issue abuse if you're seeing that happen.
It's a great question. I saw this earlier, and it's the kind of thing that people need to be able to delete.<p>"What good is this shit if it can't even recognize level.dat?"<p><a href="https://github.com/mrkite/minutor/issues/94" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mrkite/minutor/issues/94</a>