Comments of Readers: Can they delete their own?

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  5700words · Member · Jul 30, 2011 at 5:13 pm

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  I got two emails from WordPress informing me of new Comments in the sidebar. The odd thing is, the first email had someone with Viewpoint A and the second email with Viewpoint B had someone responding to Viewpoint A.

  The thing is, there is no Comment fro Viewpoint person A in the Comments sidebar.

  Therefore my questions: Is it possible for a person other than the administrator of the blog to delete his own Comment? And if so, wouldn’t all of the comments nestled under it as a reply also be deleted automatically?

  -Peregrine

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  5700words · Member · Jul 30, 2011 at 5:15 pm

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  Sat, Jul 30, 2011 10:14 AM PST

  …….. And just now I went back to my blog to check the Comments and wonderously, there was the previously missing Comment.

  -Peregrine

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  timethief · Member · Jul 30, 2011 at 5:17 pm

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  What’s possible is defined by the user roles we set up if and only if we choose to have official users of our blogs. If the commenters are not official users of the blog then they cannot delete their comments.
  See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/

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  5700words · Member · Jul 30, 2011 at 6:55 pm

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  Aha! Thanks Timethief. And since I the only official user of my blog, then nobody can delete their own Comment.

  Well, it all became a null point when suddenly that Comment that wasn’t there previously there showed up, so that the next comment in rebuttal made sense.

  I love WordPress. -Peregrine

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  timethief · Member · Jul 30, 2011 at 7:58 pm

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  Hello there,
  Thanks for letting us know this is resolved. Would you like to enter the OP on this thread and mark it “resolved”?

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  5700words · Member · Jul 30, 2011 at 8:15 pm

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  Timethief, I barely remembered to mark this resolved but at the last minute I remembered you.

  I do not understand what OP means. How do I enter the OP??

  -Peregrine

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  timethief · Member · Jul 30, 2011 at 8:17 pm

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  OP means original post you made to create the thread. Not to worry if you cannot find it.

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  5700words · Member · Jul 30, 2011 at 8:21 pm

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  Timethiuef, but it is easy to find……… isn’t that the one at the top of the page???? So just now I went to that original post and toggled to “Resolved.” :-) :-)

  -Peregrine

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  timethief · Member · Jul 30, 2011 at 8:46 pm

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  Not to worry. I’m posting this link below re: a related issue of editing comments on someone else’s WordPress.com blog so when the thread goes into the forum search box the people who use it find the answer quickly in the support documentation > http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-comments/#can-i-edit-comments-i-left-on-someone-elses-blog

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  5700words · Member · Jul 30, 2011 at 8:51 pm

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  OK. I’m not too clear on what you did but I am glad that it can be useful. :-)

  -Peregrine