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Is it possible to remove comments that people have put on your tree?

Today in the comments section of a tree I was looking at I put a link to an online image at FamilySearch of a baptism.  The tree had just the transcript and no images.  Soon afterwards I received a message thanking me for the link and asking me to remove the comment, which they say they can't remove.  They've taken an image from the link I provided and put it in their tree that way. It doesn't say where the image is from.

So, now I'm curious.  I have a 3rd cousin who is a DNA match.  She's not responded to messages via Ancestry.  However, I knew that generally people receive an e-mail if you put a comment next to a person on their tree, so I provided a link to our mutual gtgtgt-grandmother's grave which I knew she didn't have.  It's not on sites such as Findagrave.  I also said I have more info on this line so please check her messages and I'd be happy to send it privately. I was hoping we might connect this way.

I haven't heard from her.  She's updated her tree with the info I provided and the comment has gone.  Would it be reasonable to assume that she received the comment, deleted the person and recreated them to include the info I provided?

I've been trying to edit an ancestor's tree at FamilySearch.  Another relative (but not a descendant) recently reattached the father of her half-siblings as her father.  I have unattached this relationship a few times as he was not her biological father, the last time only two weeks ago.  He could barely be considered her stepfather either because for most the brief time he was married to her mother my ancestor lived with an aunt. 

Have you ever struck this problem at FamilySearch?  It's as if it's somehow been locked. 

Her parentage has been frequently changed by people who think a record index is proof and don't have the certificates, or people who don't know how to use the site, or people who perhaps should focus on their own family stop inserting errors in other trees.

I contacted the relative and asked him to remove this father because this man was not her father.  He says the Thrulines at Ancestry say he was.  We actually know from DNA who the father was!

If he believes every Thruline the tree is going to be an absolute mess.  Fortunately I have hundreds of our mutual relatives on my watchlist and am notified of changes.

I heard this on the radio this morning - it's only 20 or so minutes long and very interesting

https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife/audio/2018681635/under-fivehundy-turakina

Somehow Clare always reports the changes at FindMyPast in a postive fashion...well, not negatively anyway.

https://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2018/12/new-packages-for-findmypast-ireland-and.html

$300 AUD?

Forget it.