Title
Deleting comments in communities
Short, concise description of the idea
Have the ability to keep members from deleting comments of others in communities.
Full description of the ideaAs a moderator of a fairly active political discussion community, at times I've had to threaten bans and the like for people deleting the comments of others. Can
(
Read more... )
Comments 21
Reply
Reply
Hmmm... I can't explain exactly why, but it feels like preventing authors of community entries from deleting those comments would be drama waiting to happen. =/ Like you said under "Problems," suppose all of the community maintainers were on hiatus for a while, and a troll/spambot posted an offensive or page-breaking comment, like an enormous image, on a non-maintainer's entry? They and other readers would be stuck with it until the maintainers returned.
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
But I get what you're saying. I've seen OPs abuse the power by deleting comments. I've seen that same abuse with screening and freezing, too.
Reply
Reply
As a moderator, I hate hearing about drama (even a few hours late) and seeing that everything was already deleted in one way or another.
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
(The comment has been removed)
Reply
Leave a comment