How to delete otherwise undeletable LJ comments from suspended users.
This is for anyone who may have run into this issue. I asked LJ help about it, and they sent me the following reply:
You can delete comments from suspended accounts by constructing the comment deletion link. This link uses the following format:
http://www.livejournal.com/delcomment.bml?journal=yourusername&id=#######
You should replace "yourusername" in this link with your username and "#######" with the comment ID number. You can find the comment ID number by finding the link for the comment; depending on your journal's style, you may be able to do this by clicking the subject line of the collapsed comment. The comment link will be in this format:
http://yourusername.livejournal.com/entryid.html?thread=commentid#tcommentid
You can then use the commentid from this link to construct the deletion link in the format mentioned above, which will allow you to delete the comment in question.
So, yeah, someone made a comment on a previous post that, according to the email notification, was blatant porn spam. When I went to delete it, I saw that the journal was already suspended and the comment removed, but the comment header was still lingering there with no apparent way to delete it. The above worked like a charm, though.
You can delete comments from suspended accounts by constructing the comment deletion link. This link uses the following format:
http://www.livejournal.com/delcomment.bml?journal=yourusername&id=#######
You should replace "yourusername" in this link with your username and "#######" with the comment ID number. You can find the comment ID number by finding the link for the comment; depending on your journal's style, you may be able to do this by clicking the subject line of the collapsed comment. The comment link will be in this format:
http://yourusername.livejournal.com/entryid.html?thread=commentid#tcommentid
You can then use the commentid from this link to construct the deletion link in the format mentioned above, which will allow you to delete the comment in question.
So, yeah, someone made a comment on a previous post that, according to the email notification, was blatant porn spam. When I went to delete it, I saw that the journal was already suspended and the comment removed, but the comment header was still lingering there with no apparent way to delete it. The above worked like a charm, though.