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It looks like this doesn't address the potential for abuse (such as pointed out in this comment). Allowing a single user to wipe all the comments under a question, without requiring any confirmation from anyone else, even under their own answer, sounds like something that could be abused. Do you have any thoughts on whether that will be a problem and/or any ways to mitigate the risk?
– D.W.
Commented Apr 7, 2015 at 0:16
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@D.W. the comments will be moved into chat and purged from the post. Since they are in chat, it is slightly different then deleting the comments because a user is irritated. Once the comments are moved, there is a link left pointing to the chat conversation.
– Taryn
Commented Apr 7, 2015 at 1:52
Ahh, I didn't realize it left a public link pointing to the chat conversation. That makes sense -- thank you for the explanation.
– D.W.
Commented Apr 7, 2015 at 4:15
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This would require some sort of community generated comment otherwise this gives 30k users the ability to silently delete all comments (by deleting the notification comment).
– enderland
Commented Jul 5, 2015 at 18:06
This is definitely worthy of a 30k privilege.
– Picachieu
Commented Nov 15, 2018 at 2:50

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