Author Comment-Moderation

Since comments are an inherently secondary category of content (in response or conversation with a primary piece of content), it would be reasonable for platforms to give the owner of the primary content more controls and capacity to direct the tone and conversation in the comments, as a space for which they have some ownership stake. Platforms could offer post authors controls over their comment sections like:

1. the ability to delete comments
2. the capacity to ban accounts from commenting on a post, or commenting on any of the author's posts
3. the ability to suggest changes
4. the ability to pre-approve comments before they become visible publicly

What makes sense would vary from platform to platform, and it would be critical to also make public and transparent what mechanisms a content author has over their comments, and what actions they have chosen to take on a given post.