I like receiving the whole post and my comment because I have a copy of the post. In some cases, that's the ONLY way I can reread a post after a journal is deleted. Other than saving the html manually (not so doable if I'm not on my home computer at the time), nothing else accomplishes that. And sometimes in order to "get" the meaning of the comment I need the whole post because it responds to just the last paragraph or something, which I won't see if the last paragraph has been deleted.

I REALLY REALLY HATE Dreamwidth's stance about options, frankly. Because I understand why you desperately want this, and I desperately want this NOT to be done, and that is a great time for an option.

Unless, of course, you hate options so your users are screwed when opinions are a) strongly held and b) sharply divided.