[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12104: edit-comments.php not available to roles with proper capabilities

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#12104: edit-comments.php not available to roles with proper capabilities
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 Reporter:  sillybean     |       Owner:     
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.1
Component:  Comments      |     Version:  3.0
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:     
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Changes (by shidouhikari):

 * cc: shidouhikari (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:4 sillybean]:
 > In this particular instance, I think it would make sense to redo the
 comment moderation capabilities to look more like posts and pages: one for
 moderating comments on one's own stuff, and one for moderating all
 comments.

 Agreed. Requiring capability to edit a post to be able to edit that post's
 comments means comments are an extention of their post. That's correct for
 sites that have few comments and ppl who edit posts also edit comments.

 But for a site where comments take post's visibility and look more as a
 forum, having comment moderators who deal with commentators interaction
 and don't have access to posts is a logical approach.

 As a use case, I've seen some "communities" (in Brasil at least) where
 they aren't organized and skilled enough to build their forum, so they
 google for their concerning subjects and start commenting on posts of any
 site they find that had published a post about that subject.

 Some small sites' posts get high ranked on Google because the amount of
 comments and content about that subject, and comments get much bigger than
 original post, with many comments with more content and relevance than the
 post, and it really becomes a discussion forum. Some site owners even get
 scared with it and they also go to a trolling line of debate, and when
 comments get closed for that post they restart searching for another site
 where their discussion/trolling is accepted.

 If mini-forum sites would be created using this behavior, with posts
 offering subjects for visitors debate and it gets popular, site's owner
 would end up wanting to promote commentators to manage comments. But they
 wouldn't wanna give moderators access to edit the post, because mods could
 use post's special highlight to add content owner would want to remain
 democratically in comments.

 Subscribed users also could edit their past comments, and a plugin could
 be made to resctrict old comments from being edited.

 Wordpress should support this comment moderation feature :)

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