HELPFUL HINT: When people complain about deletion, they often don't actually care about the wank itself, they only care that you've deleted what you originally said in the hopes that we will forget or possibly never know what that was.

In other words, deleting to placate the masses never actually placates the masses. If you want to ETA with an apology or whatever, that's fine, just don't get rid of everything else in the post, okay?