You have the ability to edit a comment for a certain period of time, and as long no reply was posted on it. Removing a comment is only possible by a moderator and can be done at request along with the reasoning.
The reason why one can't remove their own comments is to preserve communication flow. Many other sites focused on collaboration follow the same rules.
Many of us regulars have several posts that consist of a . and nothing else. It's because we realized the stupidity of what we said and edited it, that's how we remove it ourselves.
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Because that is how the site is designed.
But if I add a comment, which I don't want to be there, and I want to remove it. That sounds kind of stupid.
You have the ability to edit a comment for a certain period of time, and as long no reply was posted on it. Removing a comment is only possible by a moderator and can be done at request along with the reasoning.
The reason why one can't remove their own comments is to preserve communication flow. Many other sites focused on collaboration follow the same rules.
Many of us regulars have several posts that consist of a . and nothing else. It's because we realized the stupidity of what we said and edited it, that's how we remove it ourselves.