I noticed today that a comment I made on another user’s observation, disappeared. Does that mean my comment was flagged? Included is a screen shot of the flagged comment. Is it not allowed to add a reason for one’s identification in a comment? Magda[date=2019-03-05 timezone=“Africa/Johannesburg”…

Adding an explanation for one’s ID is encouraged, as long as its civil and cites evidence, and oyur comments looks great. I still see it here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20967017 [image]

Flagging a comment wont cause it to be removed. Adding a reason behind your ID or even text suggesting what you feel something is is a perfectly acceptable use of comments. That being said, other users can delete comments they did not enter (sorry, I dont know if only curators can do this or all u…

i’m pretty sure only curators can delete comments. It’s true that we should have some clear guidance as curators as to what comments should be deleted. My understanding is it should only happen if clear spam or offensive and in the latter i’m not even sure if we should if it isn’t something horrible…

Tony, do you still see the comment starting Hymenopus coronatus lives… I don’t see that one, and it may be what the reference is to.

Yes, I refer to my second comment.

Oy, sorry about that. Shouldn’t do this so early in the morning. I’ll see if we can find out what happened to it.

[image] cmcheatle: That being said, other users can delete comments they did not enter (sorry, I dont know if only curators can do this or all users), and you will receive no notification that your comment was deleted. I don’t believe there is any way to trace who may have deleted it. I think…

@magdastlucia after doing some investigating, we don’t have a record of that comment being saved, but we do have a record of the “Could be purple orchid mantis…” comment. Also, note that the down arrow on the “Hymenopus coronatus lives…” comment is gray and not black, denoting that it did not save. …

I agree that hiding comments would be a better functionality for curators to have, and that it should probably come with a reason and notification to the author of the comment. Comment authors should probably still have the ability to completely delete their own comments, per EU requirements, thoug…

[image] jdmore: Do non-curators currently have the ability to delete others’ comments from their own observations? I do not. The dropdown next to another’s comment has only 3 choices: flag, share coordinates with trusted person, and manage relationships.

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bouteloua March 5, 2019, 11:01pm 13

Here it is:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/remove-ability-for-curators-to-delete-other-users-comments/548

Topic		Replies	Views
Hide rather than delete comments (curators) Feature Requests	12	1820	September 10, 2019
Deleting other users comments on flags that I have created Bug Reports web , staff-can-replicate , issue-made	11	671	July 31, 2024
Delete someone else's comment on my observation Feature Requests	22	4216	May 3, 2020
Hiding comments functionality is now live Curators	4	1196	July 6, 2019
Curators can now access a user's comments Curators web	15	2079	October 24, 2021

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