[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16705: Unclear wording: "An administrator must always approve the comment "

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#16705: Unclear wording: "An administrator must always approve the comment "
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 Reporter:  joe.woidpress  |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  3.3
Component:  General        |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-feedback    |
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Comment (by kevinB):

 Replying to [comment:9 scribu]:
 > The patch is no good. It would mean that authors couldn't edit comments
 on their own posts, since only editors and admins have the
 'moderate_comments' capability.

 Actually, the patch is just incomplete.

 Without needing to discuss whether it's a good idea, let's just be clear
 that Authors are currently granted an implicit and unrevokable
 'moderate_comments' capability.

 A more consistent approach would be to explicitly add 'moderate_comments'
 to both the Author role and the 'edit_comment' cap map.  Then let the the
 site admin decide if it's a good idea, by removing 'moderate_comments'
 from the role if desired.

 Anyway, that would require a more ambitious patch and more deliberation so
 I'm not going to pursue it any further here.  Will work around the issue
 via plugin code as needed but I thought the observation/idea might benefit
 others too.  Just take it or leave it.

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