In an ideal world sure , but this takes time , money and resources to develop . Almost every software application in the world is underdeveloped in this area be it a website or a business application . The reality is an admin of any website typically has much more access than they would require for 99 % of their daytoday job . Being able to modify comments isn ' t likely to make the website have any major technical problem though of cause a potential major PR problem thus isn ' t really critical either way for a trusted and employed individual to have access to . In this case the power was not wielded responsibility and breaks the sysadmin professional oath . Even worse it was the one person accountable for the entire company , who is not really a admin in the traditional sense anyway .