Gab's goal has always been to be as hands off as possible with user content. Instead we want to give you the community the tools to create and shape your own experience. Freedom of association is just as important as freedom of speech.

We have a new feature today that gives you the user more control over your own content and your own experience on Gab. Users now have the ability to moderate comments under their own posts. When you post original content on your profile you are the moderator of the conversation happening under that content because it's your content on your profile.

The comments are not removed completely from the site, they will still be in the "comments" section of someone's profile who left the comment--but they will no longer be in the comment section under your content when you remove them.

Users also cannot moderate "quote post" replies to their content because those are new pieces of content on someone else's page. This is a healthy balance that allows for dissent to still be discovered in quote posts and for spam to be removed from the comment section.

No one in entitled to an audience on someone else's content. If you want to "dunk" on people's posts with your own take you can always do so with a quote post to your own audience.

Okay now feel free to leave a comment on this post and tell me how happy or mad you are about this new feature. :)