ability to delete comments from suspended user

[damnitnicole]

Title
ability to delete comments from suspended user

Short, concise description of the idea
Users should be able to mass delete/screen comments from suspended users.

Full description of the ideaRight now, when an entry has a comment from a suspended user, it shows up as either "(no subject) - username," or "reply from suspended user," depending on

Comments

[rly]

I don't know if a user should ever be able to mass delete anything. The stated problem with this has usually been that if your account gets hacked it's just that much easier for your stuff to get wrecked. I was surprised when they added the little checkboxes to delete comments considering how loudly they say they won't enable mass deletion of entries.

But I don't see why comments from suspended users shouldn't be able to be deleted like any other comment can be.

[asciident]

One can already mass delete comments.

[rly]

That's why I mentioned my surprise at "the little checkboxes to delete comments".

that's fine

[speck]

but don't make it automatic. I keep suspended user's and banned users and deleted users posts for reference and evidence trail (if applicable)

[cmshaw]

For S2, I suspect that what this needs is a bool member on the Comment class called something like poster_suspended to match screened, so that the style can handle it differently from a collapsed comment. (Or, alternately, a suspended on the UserLite class so that the style can read Comment.poster.) (Or, as a third option, adding the mass delete option to collapsed comments, although that gets messy -- and also risky, if a user is carelessly checking boxes without having the contents of the comment visible.)

Then, of course, the core and the standard styles will have to be updated.

[damnitnicole]

Ok, there's a suggestion for implementation. :)

There should be a way to leave that blank for people who don't know stuff like that, or a box to check that just says "I don't know."

[mendel]

I believe (but am not certain) that suspended users' comments are kept-but-not-displayed because it's necessary to keep the evidence around.

[ruakh]

Hmm.

It seems like it would make the most sense not to display anything from a suspended users' comment - and not to let it affect pagination - unless one of its descendants is a visible comment.

(Perhaps there could be a special "viewall" mode for the journal's owner, allowing him/her to see all comments - including those from suspended users - and to delete whatever comments he liked?)

[damnitnicole]

Well, I can see why it would display something if the comment was replied to from a user that wasn't suspended, but yeah.

[ruakh]

Yeah, I took that into account. :-)

[damnitnicole]

Oh, right. You did. I missed that, my bad. :)