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Roko never deleted his account; he simply deleted all of his comments individually.
Surely not individually (there were probably thousands and IIRC it was also happening to other accounts, so wasn't the result of running a self-made destructive script); what you're seeing is just how "deletion of account" performed on old version of LW looks like on current version of LW.
No, I don't think so; in fact I don't think it was even possible for users to delete their own accounts on the old version of LW. (See here.) SilasBarta discovered Roko in the process of deleting his comments, before they had been completely deleted.
That post discusses the fact that account deletion was broken at one time in 2011, and a decision was being made about how to handle account deletion in the future. It doesn't say anything relevant about how it worked in 2010.
"April last year" in that comment is when LW was started, I don't believe it refers to incomplete deletion. The comments before that date that remained could be those posted under a different username (account), automatically copied from overcomingbias along with the Sequences.
Here is clearer evidence that account deletion simply did nothing back then. My understanding is the same as komponisto's: Roko wrote a script to delete all of his posts/comments individually.
This comment was written 3 days before the post komponisto linked to, which discussed the issue of account deletion feature having been broken at that time (Apr 2011); the comment was probably the cause of that post. I don't see where it indicates the state of this feature around summer 2010. Since "nothing happens" behavior was indicated as an error (in Apr 2011), account deletion probably did something else before it stopped working.
Ok, I guess I could be wrong then. Maybe somebody who knows Roko could ask him?