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[gkr]

How do I keep people from deleting their comments in MY journal, whether they are paid or not?

[eevee]

Get them emailed to you?

[rebelsheart]

you can't. LiveJournal allows users full control of their content, including comments on other people's entries.

[whataspacecase]

Oohhh, there's an interesting thought.

[nova_one]

One thing you could do is change the entry to Friends-only (if they're not a Friend) or a custom security level, if they were. I don't know if this actually would work, but there is potential for hilarity as you get comment replies e-mailed to you for a post that you're no longer permitted to access.

[azurelunatic]

Whether or not a comment owner has access to the post, if they have the delete link or if they can construct it (needed: username of the journal the comment is in, comment ID, both of which are in reply emails), they can delete it.

[nova_one]

Interesting! That would probably prevent all but savvy power users, but that's really good to know! Thanks!

[azurelunatic]

A situation where someone's getting locked out from a post/comment of theirs that's getting a ton of replies, and the user being unable to delete it (through their lack of knowledge about how to do it) is also a scenario that might well be worthy of attention from Abuse.

[nova_one]

Yeah, I'm not trying to think of ways to be cruel so much as I'm simply enjoying learning how these things work.

[azurelunatic]

It's really fun! Almost as fun as trying to break stuff in beta. :D

A lot of LJ's weird quirks are documented in the FAQs; some of them aren't (bugs get filed in the bug tracking system, not documented in the FAQs; some are just not formally documented yet).

[azurelunatic]

Ban them. They can't delete comments they weren't able to make.