Hello Tony Young,

If you want to remove it, yes you can but if you enable it back, then it will raise a problem. Those that you removed is not available. About the second question you ask, you may put it below the social button but this customization will not be override if you run the update. You need to do a backup this customization first before you update EasyBlog.
I have attached 1 file here. Can you put it inside you site in: \components\com_easyblog\themes\vintage\blog.read.meta.bottom.php and delete this code in: \components\com_easyblog\themes\vintage\blog.read.php

<div class="blog-brief ptl pbl mbl">

<div class="in clearfix">

<div class="blog-option mts">

<ul class="reset-ul float-li small fsm"> </ul>

</div>

Since there is no settings for not displaying this, I have temporarily set it to reporting setting. Components > EasyBlog > Settings > Workflow > General > Reporting > Enable Reporting = Yes. Please give it a try and see how it goes.

If you have anymore question, please don't hesitate to ask us.
Hope this will help.
Thanks.

Hello Tony,

Try this, add the following block of css codes into your template's css file,

.blog-brief {

display: none !important;

}