Ugh! I may have interpreted the comment I responded to wrong, and replied to my own strawman. I think you need the power for the user to delete records (obvious

Ugh! I may have interpreted the comment I responded to wrong, and replied to my own strawman. I think you need the power for the user to delete records (obviously) but this could mean a bug in the system could cause the records to be deleted. But it sounds from what you are saying that they sort of "intentionally" deleted the records (not sure if a human had the intent or an algorithm?) but if intentionally deleted yes that sucks, there is no reason for that I can think of, given what they do is about handling DDOS. Unless the mechanism exists for legal reasons, i.e. they are forced to take some sites down by the government or law suits.