Any reason we don’t have the ability the delete other users’ comments from our observations? Would really like that, and it’s pretty standard on social media these days. In my case it was not a harrassment/spam situation but was still a comment I did not want on my observation. Wound up deleting the…

Nope. You can flag offensive or spam comments, or email help@inaturalist.org if someone is using apparently innocent comments to harass you, but you cannot delete comments (unless you are a curator).

See more discussion here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/disappearing-comments/545/10

[image] Star3: you cannot delete comments (unless you are a curator). Curators can not delete comments on observations either. The only place curators can delete comments that I am aware of is journal entries. It may be possible on backend things like flags and taxa changes, but have never re…

It would not follow a scientific peer-reviewed process if deleting comments was allowed, in my opinion. I was not aware of this policy by INaturalist, but it is a good one.

Thanks for the correction, @cmcheatle . :)

I agree with @mariejoseegarand . The context of comments is a bit different than on other social media websites. The comments sections are largely used to discuss the identification of the organism or other aspects of a piece of data, and others are invited/encouraged to weigh in with their perspecti…

Thanks everyone. I disagree 1000% with not allowing users to delete comments on their own observations but I am apparently in the minority. Will just continue deleting the observation and reposting it.

Another approach, as @Star3 mentioned, is to flag inappropriate comments, and a curator can hide them so they will no longer be visible to you or others. This would be preferable to deleting the observation along with IDs that people have taken time to add.

Not everything is flaggble, e.g. I had some approaches about why do I upload this or that, while it clearly wasn’t the deal of that person, but they said nothing that would allow me to flag those comments, but I really would like to just delete them. But it’s the fact that this feature clearly will …

Delete someone else's comment on my observation

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Welcome to the forum @eric_hunt!

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Delete someone else's comment on my observation

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