Feature request · Permissions & security · Blocks work
Let comment authors resolve their own threads without edit access
1 source thread · first seen 2026-09
Summary
Read-only reviewers can create comments but cannot resolve or reopen their own threads because those actions require document update permission. The request is to let authors of top-level comments manage their own thread state.
- Affects
- Read-only document reviewers
- Workaround
- Granting reviewers edit permission is considered unacceptable.
Evidence
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“the person who started a thread can never close it”