I encountered that myself during the tutorial and eventually figured out the workaround you suggested on my own @deeplow. Glad to see it was addressed sitewide now.
Since this thread has been revived, I might as well add my two cents to it: I oppose disabling deletion because I think that control over the status of one’s posts is a fundamental necessity derived from first principles such as privacy and autonomy. I do not consider the arguments provided here to be persuasive, especially when considering the surveillance ideology that I recognize in them. The only question that ultimately needs consideration on matters such as this is “Who controls my data?”, since the answer to that determines who determines its fate. By deciding to disable post deletion, the tacit answer here has become “Not me.”
I can expand upon this, such as by criticizing the insufficiency and false security of account “anonymization” as an alternative; or raising the specter of stylometric analysis to deanonymize users through their writeprints, which is now no longer possible to defend against for those who just now realize this attack vector and wish to scrub their text from this forum. But these attempt to explore practical considerations and specific consequences that a user-hostile decision like prohibiting post deletion will have on user privacy and autonomy, rather than addressing the root of this problem: data sovereignty.
This is not meant to appeal the decision or relitigate the discussion; it is just an addendum of my thoughts after the fact (my fault for missing this topic when the decision was still being discussed). While I understand the rationales involved and the apparent popularity of preventing post deletion in forums both here and elsewhere, they have never sat well with me for the reasons stated above.
Regards,
John