I’m having the same problem. I would like to add a couple of subscribers to my site, but do not want them to have access to the comments section of the admin panel. The problem seems to be that “edit_posts” bundles access to write and manage with comments in the admin panel.
I have tried both role managers and neither one can break up the “edit_posts” capability. Surely there is a way to do this.
And, from what I’ve read, edit_posts is supposed to only display the person’s own comments. However this function seems broken and anyone with access to the comments can see everyone else’s comments.
Is there anyway short of having to edit code that I can resolve this problem? I’m losing a lot of traffic and a couple of valuable resources by having to hold back my contributors over this.