Hi, everyone. My name is Andres Gomez, and I work on the SmartThings Developer Support team, so I am also an admin in the SmartThings Community . There is a valuable long-term user (more than 7 years) here in our Community that has been running into an issue lately. This user had an accident a long …

[image] Andres Gomez: Is there a chance to move the Delete Topic button from the Select Posts... button? I think you can hide it with CSS and even make a user-selectable theme just for that user.

Hello and welcome @AndresGomez :slight_smile: I think your user may have been recently made into a Category Moderator to acquire the ability to delete a topic (only Category Moderators, Moderators, and Admin currently have the delete permission for content that’s not their own). Normally if you ac…

Hi, Jay How can I do that? I have never edited anything on the platform

A simple way could be to hide it for all non-staff users by adding this to a custom theme component: .topic-admin-menu-topic li.topic-admin-delete { display: none; } .staff .topic-admin-menu-topic li.topic-admin-delete { display :initial; }

Hi, @JammyDodger Thank you for this information, I am not sure how to implement that CSS change but I will investigate. About the TL4 user, I asked around, and he is already a TL4 user. That was the first action we take, changing his user level. But he is still able to delete topics, and he is not …

Hmmm. :thinking: I did think it was because they were a Category Moderator, but I’ve just checked your /about page and it doesn’t look like you have any - https://community.smartthings.com/about Just to check, does this user have full Moderator (or Admin) abilities? You can check from their admin u…

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) December 3, 2022, 12:58am 7

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