forum advice

[bleak26]

im writing a forum in php and i have a few logical questions which i would value your advice on.

when you delete a post that has more than one child what is normally done with the orphaned posts?

I ask this becouse administrators may wish to delete a post but not all of its children.

[jatar_k]

the first post in a thread should never be deleted, if it is the whole thread goes too

all subsequent posts are children of the thread or original post and don't need to have anything to do with each other. You should be able to rip any post out of any thread except the starter.