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yes, implementing a simultaneous mentionlog would be helpful, too. So the exchanges don't go away, just the "Post Title [deleted]" OP entries do.
What if an optional timer could be associated with posts/replies by an author thereof? There'd be a field labeled something like "Lifetime" next to a post/reply textarea. No input would be interpreted as "indefinitely". But a non-negative numeric value would be interpreted as "number of days until auto-deletion". That number could floating point to express a "portion of a day" value (so that 0.3 would mean "3/10ths of a day"). So something in the Pub bowels would be periodically comparing a post/reply timedate stamp with "now", and deleting posts/replies whose "lifetime" has expired.
That way, an author can be freed of the work it takes to delete posts, as well as of the guilt of being the one that creates post/reply link references. All posts/replies would be displayed with a "remaining lifetime" value, which would help guide people to either do the work to blockquote to reference, or not bother referencing such a post/reply, knowing there will eventually be a "hole" where there was once a post/reply
Maybe there's a facility in the account section that could set the lifetime of all or a subset of posts/replies to a value, drastically simplifying mass deletion? No need to endure lots of "Are you sure?" dialogs during a mass deletion session.
Note that I've not thought this all the way through... just pondering screenward....
..would do wonders for confusion and out-of-context babbling, but the time babbling together is what counts :D