[support] Restrict posting of comments

[sebastian]

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.
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> 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?
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> Thanks!
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