Allow posters and or comm. maintainers to act on comments by suspended users

[pauamma]

Title
Allow posters and or comm. maintainers to act on comments by suspended users

Short, concise description of the idea
Allow entry posters and community maintainers to delete, screen, or freeze comments by suspended users.

Full description of the ideaI just found in my email inbox a spam comment on an entry I posted in a community I maintain, but

Comments

[camomiletea]

Actually, strangely enough one time I got a spam message to my entry in lj_userdoc, and when I went to the entry - I still had the opportunity to remove the comment by the suspended user. There was a delete button or something. And it worked. So at least it seems to have the delete button - I don't remember seeing any other buttons like freeze or screen, but delete was definitely there.

[camomiletea]

Oh and in principle I support this. At least the deletion button. Not sure why you'd want to freeze or screen a comment that's already not really visible.

[azurelunatic]

It's not visible now, but in the event of a non-spam comment that either needs to not be visible ever, needs to not be replied to, or both at the same time, and a user who is suspended for unrelated and reversible reasons, there is the chance that their comment may show back up once they resolve the issue that led to their suspension.

[camomiletea]

Okay, makes sense.

[pauamma]

What azurelunatic said. Consider for instance the following exchange (I'm sure you can think of examples that match it):

Alice posts community entry about touchy topic:
Bob comments on entry, hotly replying with arguments against Alice's position.
Carol replies to Bob, rebutting Bob's arguments, and concludes with "Besides, you suck!" (ie substantive content, plus gratuitous insult tossed in).
Dave replies to Carol, "Oh yeah? Well, YOU $EXPLETIVE_OF_CHOICE." (insult, no substantive content.)

At this point, comm maintainer steps in, warns Carol, but can't do anything to Dave's comment because Dave was suspended. Depending on community policy - and perhaps also to preserve potential evidence, since after all, Dave *was* suspended - maintainer may want not to delete the comment, but doesn't want it visible or repliable to either.

[pauamma]

Hmm. When was that? (They definitely didn't show up for me, circa Feb 5, 2010.)

[camomiletea]

Hmm, Jan. 18th was the time of those comments (there were three), and this was the entry.

[jai_dit]

I think that's dependent on the privs you have. I think certain kinds of abuse privs let you delete things from suspended users.

[pauamma]

Yeah, that may be it.

[camomiletea]

I'm not on Abuse anymore, and I don't have abuse-related privs. I mean I'm still a supportadmin though, but I don't think we'd get that priv. Oh well, I guess this needs some testing...