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How to Disable or Hide Comments on a News Post

nickh647

Is there a way to disable the "Comments" on a news item?

If not, is there a way to hide the comments written by other users?

The users that can see this news item are in a group. Is there a way to set up the group so they can't see each other's comments on a news item?

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    @nickh To the best of my knowledge, here goes answers to your questions:

    Is there a way to disable the "Comments" on a news item? - I don't think there's one such.

    If not, is there a way to hide the comments written by other users? - I don't think there's one such.

    The users that can see this news item are in a group. Is there a way to set up the group so they can't see each other's comments on a news item? - I don't think this is doable, because the security is always associated with the feed entry but not with the comments associated with the feed entry.

    And an indirect solution to your questions could be is, making a different feed entry for different group of users. Simply speaking, hiding the ability to comment or hiding comments on a post can be done only by making the feed entry invisible by applying the security constraints. Let's see if any other practitioners could come up with a possibility of doing the above.
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     in reply to mariahc4798

    this is a 7(!!!) years old post.
    Since then numerous updates happened to the system....

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     in reply to Richard Michaelis

    There were several "replies" similar to this on some random threads I saw today - super vague, no real relevance to the original post, no particular recency of the post(s) in question, and super young account (< 1 week and/or an account with a grand total of ~1 comment). 

    I suspect these are bots of some sort - perhaps the bot farming operation is now having its accounts post a few random non-rulebreaking comments first just so when they go to sneak in spam links later, they don't appear quite so irrelevant?  I'm not sure.  I just wonder who around here they think they'll actually hoodwink with their spam attempts?

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     in reply to Richard Michaelis

    There were several "replies" similar to this on some random threads I saw today - super vague, no real relevance to the original post, no particular recency of the post(s) in question, and super young account (< 1 week and/or an account with a grand total of ~1 comment). 

    I suspect these are bots of some sort - perhaps the bot farming operation is now having its accounts post a few random non-rulebreaking comments first just so when they go to sneak in spam links later, they don't appear quite so irrelevant?  I'm not sure.  I just wonder who around here they think they'll actually hoodwink with their spam attempts?

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