LinkedIn Comment Settings, Moderation and Automation Rules

LinkedIn gives you comment controls on every post, and it bans tools that comment for you. This topic gathers what LinkedIn Help says about who can comment, how to delete or hide a comment and what happens when a tool automates comments. No guide in this topic is published yet. Four are planned. They cover turning off comments, deleting spam comments, deleting a comment and the rules on auto commenting. We have not tested any tool, so every fact below comes from LinkedIn Help and two news reports.

LinkedIn Comment Moderation Controls

LinkedIn Help lets you control comments there.

Articles work differently. Setting No one on an article deletes its existing comments, and that option is not available in the mobile app.

LinkedIn Comment Moderation: Delete or Hide

LinkedIn Help describes four actions for comments.

• Delete your own comment. Use the More icon and choose Delete. Its likes and replies go with it.
• Hide a comment from you. Choose I don't want to see this. Nobody else sees that you did it, and LinkedIn can use it to order comments for other members.
• Report a comment. Use More and choose Report if it breaks LinkedIn's Professional Community Policies.
• Delete on a company post. A super admin or content admin uses More and Delete. The commenter is not notified.

Company profile admins can also set No one on an existing company post from a desktop. They switch to the member view, open More and choose Who can comment on this post.

LinkedIn Auto Commenting Rules

LinkedIn Help says it does not permit third party software that automates activity on LinkedIn. Its Prohibited software article lists bots, plug-ins and extensions. The User Agreement section it quotes bars using bots or unauthorized automated methods to comment on, like or share posts. The article says accounts risk being restricted or shut down and that the tools can stop working without notice.

Another LinkedIn Help article covers restrictions. A member who is restricted for automation disables the software, and the account switches back on at the time in the notice. LinkedIn also says that posts from excessive posting or an automation tool can have reduced visibility.

Two news reports add detail. Social Media Today reported on 16 February 2026 that LinkedIn removes automated comments from the Most Relevant view, and that members who repeat the practice can be restricted. LinkedIn's Gyanda Sachdeva described them as comments posted through a third party auto script or browser plug-in without human review. The report says LinkedIn did not explain how this applies to scheduling tools. Social Media Today reported on 20 August 2025 that LinkedIn added a line to its help text about limiting the visibility of comments from excessive comment creation or an automation tool.

LinkedIn Comment Moderation Tools and Spam

We found no LinkedIn Help article that describes a setting which deletes spam comments by itself. The steps above are manual. To stop one member from commenting at all, read how to block someone on LinkedIn. We also found no LinkedIn statement on which comment moderation tools it approves, so we name none. If a tool automates comments or deletions through bots or plug-ins, the Prohibited software article applies to it.

What is Still Unconfirmed

The two news reports quote LinkedIn second hand, and we did not open LinkedIn's original statement. The comment articles we read were last updated between 4 years and about 11 months before 25 October 2026, so menus can differ. We do not know whether LinkedIn approves any moderation tool. Check the More menu on a comment in your own account before you rely on a step.

Where This Topic Fits

This topic sits inside our LinkedIn section, next to Block Someone on LinkedIn and Post on LinkedIn. A guide appears here the day it goes live and is marked Tested or Checked, as our editorial policy explains. Changes are logged on our change log. Namrata Arora edits this section. To look up a term, use the social media glossary or SMTwist search.

Sources: LinkedIn Help on turning off and limiting comments, LinkedIn Help on deleting comments, LinkedIn Help on hiding comments, LinkedIn Help on deleting comments on a company post, LinkedIn Help on switching off comments on a company post, LinkedIn Help on comments on articles, LinkedIn Help on prohibited software, LinkedIn Help on automated activity, Social Media Today on engagement pods and Social Media Today on automation tools.