[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27111: Turning off global comments should include existing content

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#27111: Turning off global comments should include existing content
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 Reporter:  jenmylo      |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  3.9
Component:  Comments     |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch    |     Focuses:  administration
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Comment (by celloexpressions):

 Replying to [comment:5 obenland]:
 > How set are we on disabling other settings based on the value of
 `default_comment_status`?
 Actually, I think there are two possible approaches: making this option
 actually turn comments completely off in WordPress (hiding everything;
 some conditionally if there are existing comments), or allowing them to be
 turned on for individual posts, in which case I don't think we can hide
 anything. I think being able to completely turn everything off is the much
 more common use-case, and allows us to hide a lot of unnecessary UI too.
 That does go somewhat against the current system, though.

 The question, really, is whether it's more useful to have a global default
 status for comments, or to have a global setting to enable comments at
 all, where individual posts could disable them as needed. If you're
 turning off comments on everything, should you be able to turn them back
 on for certain posts, or should we hide the feature entirely?

 Once we figure out the direction here, adding per-post-type support would
 be a great next step (#12991).

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