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Allow deleting one's own comments on another person's website #21423

Closed dcalhoun closed 5 days ago

dcalhoun commented 2 weeks ago

We received a feature request from a user (8973860-zd-a8c) to allow deleting/trashing their own comment on someone else's website.

In a web browser one can "trash" their own comment by clicking Edit → Trash, but this ability is absent in the mobile app. Additionally, trashed comments can be only be permanently deleted by the website's administrators.

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dangermattic commented 2 weeks ago

Thanks for reporting! 👍

jkmassel commented 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure this will ever be possible – once a comment goes on someone else's site, it belongs them, not to you.

It'd be difficult to prove you're the author of said comment to allow deletion.

This might be feasible for WP.com, but probably never for .org sites

dcalhoun commented 5 days ago

As shared in https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/issues/23770#issuecomment-2486819065, I think I was confused when believing this was possible on the web. It doesn't appear to be the case.

Closing this for now. We can re-open later, if needed.