Social and chat: authorship, send as the academy, direct messages
Who edits or deletes a post or a comment, who writes on behalf of the academy and what happens when you delete a direct message.
Tested on 28/09/2026 · version 5d7d821a1e
Posts
A post is edited and deleted only by its author:
- the person who published it;
- the academy, for posts published on behalf of the academy, when someone acts for it (Owner, Admin or Social role).
The Social role manages the academy's content, not people's: it does not edit or delete other people's posts. Anyone who tries gets a 403 error; acting as the academy, the message is Only the author can change or delete this content.
Comments
- A comment is edited only by whoever wrote it.
- A comment is deleted by whoever wrote it or by the author of the post (or story) it sits under.
In every other case the error is the same as for posts: 403.
Send as the academy
In the academy's chats the composer offers Send as: write with your own name or on behalf of the academy, with the author hidden.
| Role in the academy | Send as |
|---|---|
| Owner, Admin, Social | sees the choice and can write as the academy |
| Any other member | does not see the choice; their messages always go out signed by them as "academy member" |
Even if an app or a script asks to write as the academy, for someone without one of those roles the message still goes out signed by the person.
Direct messages
In a direct message nobody is the other person's admin:
- for everyone you delete only your own messages. Deleting one of the other person's messages for both answers 403;
- deleting the conversation removes it only from your own list; it disappears for both when both have deleted it.