[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17928: When a comment is spammed/trashed, change the parent of it's children

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#17928: When a comment is spammed/trashed, change the parent of it's children
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 Reporter:  Viper007Bond  |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Comments      |     Version:  3.2
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by rachelbaker):

 Replying to [comment:21 knutsp]:

 > When comment is marked as spam or deleted, the user should get the
 option to set the comment status to `placeholder` (a new status). Such
 comments should be displayed with a default text ("This comment was
 deleted by a moderator") in replacement for the actual comment content.
 >
 > If this choice is not selected, all replies down the thread should be
 trashed, or (better) set to to `inherited` (new status). The inherited
 status must then also be handled properly by examining the parent
 comment(s). The `inherited` status makes it possible to either unspam or
 untrash the parent comment, reviving the thread.

 In addition to introducing two new comment "statuses", comments themselves
 don't have a status (there is only comment_approved).
 I don't have an alternative idea that is a lighter lift, but I wonder if
 there is another way.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17928#comment:22>
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