My first instinct would be to tie into hook_comment ( http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_comment/6)

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Johns, Ethan ejohns89@mercyhurst.eduwrote:

I am running a college newspaper site and have several user roles established including ones for Section Editors and Copy Editors.

I would like to restrict the Section Editors and Copy Editors roles from posting comments on that site. I can find no way to do this, since these users are also a member of Authenticated Users which includes a broader base of users who should have the ability of posting comments…other than creating a new role for regular users (which I am unsure how to make this the default role for new users), is there a way to restrict the Section Editors and Copy Editors from posting comments?

Thanks!

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you can auto assign people to a particular role at user creation, and then give that role comments and the other roles not:

http://drupal.org/project/autoassignrole

Johns, Ethan wrote:

I am running a college newspaper site and have several user roles established including ones for Section Editors and Copy Editors.

I would like to restrict the Section Editors and Copy Editors roles from posting comments on that site. I can find no way to do this, since these users are also a member of Authenticated Users which includes a broader base of users who should have the ability of posting comments…other than creating a new role for regular users (which I am unsure how to make this the default role for new users), is there a way to restrict the Section Editors and Copy Editors from posting comments?

Thanks!