[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4802: Author can moderate comments on their own posts

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#4802: Author can moderate comments on their own posts
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 Reporter:  alakhnor        |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect          |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal          |    Milestone:  2.4      
Component:  Administration  |      Version:  2.2.2    
 Severity:  normal          |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:                  |  
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Changes (by jeremyclarke):

 * cc: jeremyclarke (added)

Comment:

 I think intoxination is on the right path, however based on the existing
 roles, I think that the smoothest and least confusing path would be to
 have the new role be "moderate_others_comments" in the same way that posts
 have "edit_posts" and "edit_others_posts".

 In this scenario, I think it would make sense to have the default roles as
 follows:

 Admin/Editor: moderate_comments AND moderate_others_comments
 Author: moderate_comments (only on their posts)
 Contributor: [nothing, they wait for editors/admins to approve their
 comments]

 This would follow elegantly with Contributor's inability to publish their
 own posts while authors can publish theirs but can't do things like edit
 the posts of other authors.

 I think this change is important because on large sites with lots of
 authors it is a burnout to follow all conversations, and if an author is
 trusted to publish posts independently they are likely trustworthy to sort
 comments on their own posts. This would also of course be changeable
 through the role manager plugin if someone wanted a different setup.

 The big problem I think is the number of places that would need to be
 patched to make this happen, I'm not sure how the comment moderation admin
 views work but it might take awhile to adapt them for this subtle
 difference.

 If nothing else though, having the link to accept a comment present in
 emails and allowing authors to accept comments that way would be a big
 step. I admin a large site and we moderate all comments before they
 appear, so distributing it thinner would really help.

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