Wow, people thought that line saying "This post was deleted" was annoying? God, what's
wrong with you? It was like
five pixels high.
Plus, I know of at least a few situations where someone posted something, had it deleted, and then posted it again because they thought it was some glitch in the system (or something), and the mod had to come into the thread and say something along the lines of "Now look here Jane-Bob, when we delete your post, there's a reason. And it's not to watch you repost the same Goddamn thing again".
In short this was a super good idea.
Maybe it could be a switchable option in the User CP? "Mark deleted posts" or something. Sometimes I get confused if I was reading a thread and a post got deleted, so I would really like for this feature to be there. Don't let those regressive cockmunchers put you down!
Jam it back in, in the dark.