So what are a commenter’s rights? I’m going to make an initial attempt to materialize what some rights should be. a) The ability to edit and remove their comments b) Access to all of their comments, even if it has been deleted on a blog c) The right to use their own comments as blog posts. After all, a commenter is just a publisher not writing on his own website. d) A life for the comment beyond a single blog. I want to take my comments with me, even if the blog shuts down. This may seem threatening to the publisher, but it really isn’t. A commenter should have rights to what they post, but bloggers should still have control over content that appear on their blogs.

Bloggers should still control: a) Whether or not someone is allowed to comment on his blog b) The deletion of a comment c) The modification of a comment, as long as the original copy is still accessible and the edit is transparent. - Disqus