[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43857: Show the comment / awaiting moderation message even without opt-in

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#43857: Show the comment / awaiting moderation message even without opt-in
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 Reporter:  imath                         |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)                  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                        |   Milestone:  4.9.7
Component:  Comments                      |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal                        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch gdpr needs-testing  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by imath):

 Hi @desrosj

 I usually do not discuss "punting" decisions, I know you and the Core team
 are doing a great job using a time you could use for something else. I
 just wanted to let you know although I respect your decision about this
 ticket i think you took a very wrong one.

 4.9.6 is a minor release, yes.. But it will be automatically upgraded for
 the wide majority of WordPress sites. This means your decision to leave a
 regression GDPR compliance adjustments introduced into the existing user
 experience won't be avoidable by these sites.

 So if you stay on this line, which given what you consider a "tricky"
 approach needing test cases about cache consideration is totally
 understandable, I do advise you to communicate to this wide majority of
 WordPress sites (eg: at least on make.wordpress.org/core) about the fact
 that when 4.9.6 will be upgraded to their site : there will be great
 chances the administrator of these sites will receive similar comments by
 the same people or questions by people who commented that are unsure their
 comment was saved etc... because the user did not activate the "cookies
 consent" checkbox and you decided to postpone this issue to the next minor
 release.

 imho : it's a risky situation because some people might think they have a
 worse user experience because they didn't consent to store some of their
 personal data into cookies :(

 Anyways, i prefer to inform here I just made a plugin on GitHub in case
 Administrators want to make sure their users won't have to suffer from
 this regression until 4.9.7 : https://github.com/imath/gdpr-compliance-is-
 not-a-worse-user-experience

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