Allow editorial comments to be edited or deleted

[danielbachhuber]

It might be useful for some workflows.

Requests:

• http://wordpress.org/support/topic/ability-to-edit-and-delete-editorial-comments?replies=1#post-3821469

[cojennin]

Should there be some way to view revisions or a history of comment edits if you're an admin (or filtered role) and above? I don't know if that would end up being useful or not, but since you mentioned doing some sort of revision history in #151 it seems like a cool idea. If it's something that might be worthwhile, I suppose it could shoehorned in by messing with "comment-type" in the comments table. Adding some sort of "comment-revision" type.

[danielbachhuber]

We originally left out the ability to edit or delete editorial comments for accountability purposes. As I think about this, this particular request may be better served by #112, with the ability to unresolve comments and see the comments that have been resolved.

[cojennin]

Ah, didn't see that issue. Makes a lot more sense than straight up removing a comment. Would the capacity to edit a comment by a select role still be a worthwhile endeavor or does that still pose accountability issues? I would think that in order to prevent accountability issues, some sort of revision system would need to be constructed. In which case I could see moving forward on just #112 for the moment and maybe working on #153 (the editing comments part) later on down the road, given it might be a tougher problem to solve.

[danielbachhuber]

Maybe the best option is mirroring how Facebook comments work: the original author can edit, but any edits are logged and visible

On Feb 6, 2013, at 10:44 PM, Connor Jennings notifications@github.com wrote:

Ah, didn't see that issue. Makes a lot more sense than straight up removing a comment. Would the capacity to edit a comment by a select role still be a worthwhile endeavor or does that still pose accountability issues? I would think that in order to prevent accountability issues, some sort of revision system would need to be constructed. In which case I could see moving forward on just #112 for the moment and maybe working on #153 (the editing comments part) later on down the road, given it might be a tougher problem to solve.

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[cojennin]

Sounds good. I'll take a look at that when I get a chance.

[samglover]

I'd like to be able to delete comments, at least, even if there is a log. It's annoying when you make a mistake or change your mind about a comment (especially when you're the editor) and can't remove it.