Disable comments altogether

[livtech]

Hi, I've just bought the blog product. I've been trying to disable comments but there appears to be too many options and they're not taking effect... so I'm going wrong somewhere!

I want to disable comments for all users' blogs. Ideally, I want it so that users can't comment on other people's blogs...

Also, if I disable this for default user registration, does it mean I have to run a SQL query to disable it for existing users?

Confused...

[livtech]

Anyone?

I've done some more poking around... and there is just no way to turn off the comments globally. Can someone please confirm?

[Steve Machol]

What are you trying to do exactly and what settings do you have in the usergroup Blog Permissions?

[livtech]

Hi Steve, under

vbulletin blog options -> default registration options -> default entry
allow comments & moderate comments - OFF

vbulletin blog options -> default registration options -> permissions & privacy
leave comments (for ignore, buddy & everyone) - OFF

Then for registered users group permissions -> blog general permissions

Can Manage Comments within Own Blog - no

registered users group permissions -> blog comment permissions
Can Post Comments to Own Blog - No
Can Post Comments to Others' Blog - No
Can Edit Own Comments - No
Can Delete Own Comments - No

Follow Blog Comment Moderation Setting - yes

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As for what I'm trying to do, is that when you pull up a blog entry (new or existing) I don't want the comment field/ability to leave a comment to be visible. The options are certainly unticked though.

Which makes me think I have to edit the template huh?

[Steve Machol]

Try this:

Can Post New Blog Entries -> No

[Freddie Bingham]

Can Post Comments to Own Blog - No
Can Post Comments to Others' Blog - No

Setting these two usergroup permissions to NO will disabled the ability to leave comments for everyone. If this isn't working for you than I expect your user are members of other usergroups that still allow commenting.

[livtech]

Thanks everyone.

In the end I decided to enable them due to the demand for it ;-)