Allow Members to delete their own posts

brainolution

Is there a way to allow Members to delete their own posts? I looked under the Roles and Permissions, and found an option that would allow Members to delete all comments / discussions, but that's not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for an option that would allow Members to delete their own discussions / comments.

hbf

brainolution said: @badlearner - I had tried your solution before posting it here, and also mentioned that in my original message. But thanks for trying to help. I appreciate that.

@hbf - The advanced option allows 'Edit', not 'Delete'. I think it should be designed such that Edit and Delete go together. If you are allowed to edit, you should be allowed to delete as well. I like this idea of having an option to allow Edit up to a certain time period. Even LinkedIn groups have it.

A workaround could be to do Edit, and then clear the original comments and put 'Deleted' as the new comment. But it still isn't as good as having a Delete.

What do you think?

Thanks for your help.

i actually do not allow editing after a certain time period, since my goal is to create new and better content, rather than modify or delete existing content.

but having it as an option wouldn't be a bad thing.

badlearner

Have you tried going to: Dashboard > Users > 'Manage Roles & Permissions' and checking the permissions of a Role? (e.g. 'Member' role)

In the editing screen of a role, at the bottom, you'll see this:

Try the circled options.

hbf

That will allow deletion of all posts

badlearner

Oops! Damn. @brainolution NOT follow the instructions above.

hbf

Its under forum advanced in dashboard.

brainolution

@badlearner - I had tried your solution before posting it here, and also mentioned that in my original message. But thanks for trying to help. I appreciate that.

@hbf - The advanced option allows 'Edit', not 'Delete'. I think it should be designed such that Edit and Delete go together. If you are allowed to edit, you should be allowed to delete as well. I like this idea of having an option to allow Edit up to a certain time period. Even LinkedIn groups have it.

A workaround could be to do Edit, and then clear the original comments and put 'Deleted' as the new comment. But it still isn't as good as having a Delete.

What do you think?

Thanks for your help.

staringispolite

Apologies in advance, I'm new to Vanilla: Any solution for Vanilla1? Looks like the dashboard was introduced after our version (1.1.5a)

We haven't yet been able to convince 'the powers that be' to allow an upgrade to Vanilla2, but do you know of an add-on that adds the ability to delete your own comments/discussions (and only your own comments/discussions)? Did a search but didn't find anything obvious.

eg. http://vanillaforums.org/addon/95-comment-removal seems promising, but it also references a 'hide comment' option we don't have.

iwasdead

hbf said:

brainolution said: @badlearner - I had tried your solution before posting it here, and also mentioned that in my original message. But thanks for trying to help. I appreciate that.

@hbf - The advanced option allows 'Edit', not 'Delete'. I think it should be designed such that Edit and Delete go together. If you are allowed to edit, you should be allowed to delete as well. I like this idea of having an option to allow Edit up to a certain time period. Even LinkedIn groups have it.

A workaround could be to do Edit, and then clear the original comments and put 'Deleted' as the new comment. But it still isn't as good as having a Delete.

What do you think?

Thanks for your help.

i actually do not allow editing after a certain time period, since my goal is to create new and better content, rather than modify or delete existing content.

but having it as an option wouldn't be a bad thing.