Please don’t expect the community to give you answers to your questions which you then delete right afterwards. Those of us who put time into answering your questions are not doing so just to serve your personal needs, we are here to help build a community knowledge base that others can search and reference.
This has become a chronic issue with Lemmy and its starting to feel like it’s a waste of time to answer questions.
Does deleting the root post nuke the whole thread?
The post yes, the comments no. You can’t view the post any more. Here’s one that was removed by the mod, but the effect is the same: https://lemmy.zip/post/65524914
Comments on a post still exist in that user’s history, and you can see those, but you can’t see them in context.
I dont think so. So quoting the original post would be an effective solution.