# Remove the comments of others on your topic

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-the-comments-of-others-on-your-topic/48981
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [22 Agosto , 2016 08:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-the-comments-of-others-on-your-topic/48981 "2016-08-22T08:33:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![Pirat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pirat/32/62176_2.png) [@Pirat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pirat)
#### Post date: [22 Agosto , 2016 08:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-the-comments-of-others-on-your-topic/48981/1 "2016-08-22T08:33:39Z")

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deleting comments on his topic if the user does not like  
I think it would be best if the person controlling your topic

**Example picture**

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/4/c43775f00044a164a9048dfd833d79a806de7172.jpg)

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [22 Agosto , 2016 08:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-the-comments-of-others-on-your-topic/48981/2 "2016-08-22T08:39:31Z")

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Why don’t you flag the post(s) you don’t like and explain the moderators why?

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### Author: ![Pirat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pirat/32/62176_2.png) [@Pirat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pirat)
#### Post date: [22 Agosto , 2016 09:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-the-comments-of-others-on-your-topic/48981/3 "2016-08-22T09:02:36Z")

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this is useful if the site has no moderators

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [22 Agosto , 2016 09:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-the-comments-of-others-on-your-topic/48981/4 "2016-08-22T09:03:02Z")

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If enough people flag a post, it will be handled even with no moderators around.

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### Author: ![Pirat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pirat/32/62176_2.png) [@Pirat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pirat)
#### Post date: [22 Agosto , 2016 09:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-the-comments-of-others-on-your-topic/48981/5 "2016-08-22T09:04:10Z")

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but if a person swears obscenities while others do not mind, but against the creator of a topic

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [22 Agosto , 2016 13:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-the-comments-of-others-on-your-topic/48981/6 "2016-08-22T13:46:16Z")

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If moderators don’t care that someone is cursing the OP you need to leave this community.

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### Author: ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [22 Agosto , 2016 18:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-the-comments-of-others-on-your-topic/48981/7 "2016-08-22T18:31:00Z")

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IMHO if anyone is to be Judge, Jury and Executioner it should not be a topics OP but the forum’s Moderators.

As posted by others, Discourse already has adequate ways of dealing with objectionable content.

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### Author: ![TechnoBear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/technobear/32/40546_2.png) [@TechnoBear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TechnoBear)
#### Post date: [23 Agosto , 2016 09:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-the-comments-of-others-on-your-topic/48981/8 "2016-08-23T09:11:34Z")

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> [@Mittineague](#):
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> IMHO if anyone is to be Judge, Jury and Executioner it should not be a topics OP but the forum’s Moderators.

Indeed.

We have a member who flags any reply to her topics which she doesn’t like as Spam. These are not offensive posts; just people disagreeing with her. Imagine if she had the power to simply delete them all. 😱