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you can remove these from each of your skins its a simple edit

Go to ACP > Look & Feel > select a skin > Edit Template HTML > Topic View > RenderRow

you will see

{$author['avatar']}<br /><br />
{$author['title']}<br />
{$author['member_rank_img']}<br /><br />
{$author['member_group']}<br />
{$author['member_posts']}<br />
{$author['member_joined']}<br />
{$author['member_location']}
{$author['member_number']}<br />

just remove what you dont want from each skin

Sorted :), well I suppose that settles that then, though an easy admin CP option would still be nice, but most helpful, thanks very much..

Seems you have to make changes to the blogs and galls to if you want the comments to be the same in the TopicView

skin_gallery_comments (Non-Default Group) > CommentRow

&

skin_blog_show (Non-Default Group) > blog_show_comment

** Yes indeed an admin option to change all would be nice **