When a user claims a listing, they get author privileges do that post, right?

I have tried changing author capabilities as such:

$role = get_role( 'author' );
$role->remove_cap( 'delete_posts' );
$role->remove_cap( 'delete_published_posts' );

I have checked to see that authors have indeed lost that capability, and everything is fine.
But, it seems that users (who are subscribers, by default) can still delete posts which they have claimed.

How can I prevent them from doing so?

a.geodir-delete {display:none}

Thanks,

Stiofan

In the short term I will hide the delete link with CSS but this is not a great long term solution.

Is it possible that a user can have their listing permanently disabled, so it cannot be seen, but all the listing information and reviews stay attached to it so if they ever try to set up a new user account with the same email address it will not let them, and if they reactivate their old listing the review data is still there?

Thanks, Nikki

Other organizations (e.g. Trip Advisor and AirBNB) get around this by requiring anyone who has deleted their account to have to contact the organization to have their account reestablished. You can delete your account and all information is removed but you cannot create a new account using the same details so they must be storing the email addresses of closed accounts somewhere that then blocks them being reestablished.

Nikki