Prevent people from editing/deleting comments
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Sophia Kaminski
Are there any ways to block users from editing their comments once they are posted?
If it isn't possible, a label 'EDITED' near the edited comment will work fine
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Adriano de Souza
I would really like the comment blocking feature. It could be configurable and if an administrator deems it not relevant, they simply won't activate it.
In my organization, comments are used to develop a thought, so everything that is recorded must remain unchanged.
I would like to use comments as a channel for approving various decisions, but I can't do this precisely because I don't have the confidence that a comment will remain unchanged.
I understand that this blocking could even extend to documents. I use documents a lot as meeting minutes. At the end of the meeting, it would be important to have a signature and blocking command so that the document is impossible to edit, providing greater reliability.
Currently, for all these things, I generate a conventional PDF document and sign it with a digital certificate. However, I understand that this functionality could easily be native to Clickup.
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Chua
Concur with Danny
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Philipp Berner It is for the integrity of information and to avoid conflicts and confusions. For example, if someone initially agrees to something and actions were taken based on that person's comment. However, later on, that person changes his mind and changed his comment to the opposite, this will surely render the actions taken to be unjustified. Also, if there were no edit logs then the person would have no responsibility whatsoever for the chaos that he have created.
Nowadays, we should treat comments and chats as a form of contract.
Eg: In June 2023, a Canadian court ruled that a thumbs-up emoji amounted to a contractual agreement...
Philipp Berner
Danny: Thank you for clarifying!
Philipp Berner
I'm with ClickUp and responsible for comments. What is the goal when not letting people edit comments?
Would this still be a requested feature if there were a change log of what has changed when a comment was edited?
Mark Verschuuren
Philipp Berner yes that would be an option. As long as everything is audit trailed. example: A briefing is given in a comment, later that briefing is edited, however the artworker missed it and thus created the wrong artwork. There is no way showing now the someone edited the brief/comments.
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webks: websolutions kept simple
Philipp Berner Changelog would at least mitigate that feature request a lot. I think the rest could be left to permission levels, e.g.
- Admin: allowed to edit & delete anything
- Project lead: Allowed to edit anything
- User: Allowed to edit and delete only own
All tracked by changelog.
I think changelog is more important for integrity than this permission request, but both make the perfect combination in the end :)
Rodrigo Carballo
Philipp Berner Hello. Hey Philipp. Just wondering if a further conversation has been had in ClickUp regarding this topic. The fact that users can delete their comments so freely prevents us from engagiging in more complex, auditable processes.
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Philipp Dev
Rodrigo Carballo thanks for the feedback. I'm looping in Brendan W who is owning all communication now.
Rodrigo Carballo
Brendan W Hello! Just wanted to follow up on this item. I would appreciate any updates you could share!
Thiago Moreira
Philipp Berner
I’m a business consultant and have led ClickUp implementations across multiple companies, always with a focus on structured task and process governance. I’m bringing here a serious concern that has surfaced in several of these organizations and is now becoming critical: the lack of control over comment editing inside task threads.
Currently, any user can edit their own comments at any time — and worse, there is no visible edit history or audit trail. This opens the door for problematic behaviors, including altering the logic of past discussions, erasing important context, and even manipulating agreements previously made in writing.
In practice, we’ve already faced real operational issues due to this. Teams have experienced misunderstandings, broken trust, and in some cases, decisions being questioned due to the inability to prove what was originally said.
What’s missing today:
1. A way to restrict or disable comment editing at the Workspace or Space level;
2. A visible edit log or version history for comments;
3. An audit-friendly way to track post-editing changes, ensuring transparency.
These gaps seriously affect environments where governance, traceability, and accountability are non-negotiable. For teams operating in regulated sectors or under strict compliance policies, this represents a real risk.
If there’s a roadmap update on this, or any recommended workaround or integration to mitigate the issue, it would be extremely valuable.
Thanks for your attention — and I hope this gains priority. The credibility of team communication depends on it.
Mazin Alabdulkarim
The space should have an option to prevent users from deleting or editing tasks, comments, attachments, or documents, regardless of who created them, or it will reduce our dependency on ClickUp as our main workspace. Users have edited their comments and deleted some attachments in our spaces that caused as major conflicts
Sai Praneeth Gunuputi
This is a no-brainer feature. Not sure why ClickUp allows comment editing in first place!
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Philipp Karas
comments need to be visible all the time. in case someone changed his mind on a comment, it could also work as strikethrough with the new comment behind it. nevertheless, delete is no option!
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Mohit Sharma
Philipp Karas: This idea is pretty good.
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Daniel Junghans
I can agree with the timer but there should be a P.O.N.R. . We want to use Clickup for decisions and in that case there should be an Option to see even comments as set. Since we invite even Customers to our boards to get a fast workflow and fast decision making this is for us actually a no-go. Just to clarify - no editing includes no deleting.
If someone need to correct a statement or just a comment he should quote the old one, maybe tag it as obsolete and correct it this way.
I just want a clear communication.
And last but not least: basic feature, please.
Elliott
A timer would be best. E.g.: allow a 5 minute window for a comment to be edited.
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Sophia Kaminski
From support ticket: prevent people from deleting comments added to Conversation views
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Max Butler
It would also work to give administrators a way of disabling the conversations feature, or to record (in a format that can be exported and which includes the original versions of deleted or modified comments) all conversations. This is because for some companies there is a regulatory requirement that all "communications" be recorded in an indelible format. The regulation we are trying to comply with is CFR § 240.17a-4(b)(4) here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/240.17a-4
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