I replied to a post in a thread (about how my 15 year old burned DVDs were going bad and what I was doing to remedy it). The thread is still there but my post is gone. It wasn’t an argument. It was a reply to someone asking for data backup options.
Some auto generated explanation from Lemmy would be nice like : post deleted by owner. Or posted deleted by moderator.
Depending on what front end the mod uses it’s possible now. Photon/Tesseract has it built in and you can create different presets and whether you want to reply to the comment or directly message the person after removal with the reasoning.