{"id":51233,"date":"2020-02-24T11:01:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T11:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/resources\/?p=7581\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T14:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T13:58:51","slug":"hide-delete-users-comment","status":"publish","type":"knowledge_base","link":"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/knowledge_base\/hide-delete-users-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I hide or delete a user&#8217;s comment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately for social media managers, sometimes not all the comments you get are relevant. For example, a customer might have left a negative comment, a complaint, or profanities that should be dealt with a higher priority than a neutral or non-threatening comment. Or in another case, a customer might have written sensitive information that should not be seen by other users. Seeing the comment could give your other customers the wrong impression, so it\u2019s best to hide it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this post, we\u2019ll show you how you can hide or delete a comment, and how you can track comment history on Facebook.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>How to hide a comment<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you need to hide a comment, there are two ways that you can go about this. Here is how you can hide comments on Facebook directly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simply click on the three dots and choose \u201chide comment\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/facebook-hide-or-delete-comment-0.png\" alt=\"Option to hide or delete a comment on a Facebook post\" width=\"617\" height=\"536\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>How to delete a comment<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For those of you wondering whether users will be notified that you&#8217;ve deleted their comments: the answer is no. However, as deleting any content published by users is an irreversible action on Facebook, we recommend you to think twice before clicking the delete button. <strong>Deleted comments and posts are gone forever on Facebook.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So to recap:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can hide and delete comments on Facebook, but deleted comments are gone forever<\/li>\n<li>The user whose comment you deleted won&#8217;t receive a notification<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Read more about similar topics here:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/resources\/knowledge-base\/organize-my-facebook-inbox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\">How can I organize my Facebook inbox better?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/resources\/knowledge-base\/community-management\/benefits-social-media-moderation-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\">What are the benefits of using a social media moderation tool to answer comments and messages on Facebook?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/resources\/knowledge-base\/community-management\/change-page-to-moderate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\">How can I easily switch between the Pages I moderate on Facebook?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":51684,"template":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How can I hide or delete a user&#039;s comment? 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