Screen comment edits when comments are screened

[tim]

Title:
Screen comment edits when comments are screened

Area:
comments

Summary:
Right now, if I set comments to screened-if-not-in-my-circles and I unscreen a comment, then the author edits a comment, the edit appears immediately without being screened.

Description:
I have screening enabled by default in my journal for comments from people not on my access list. Suppose "Alice", who's not on my access list, leaves a comment, and I unscreen it. If "Alice" edits the comment afterward, her edit appears immediately -- I don't have to unscreen the new edited version.

This is weird. When I saw this happening, fortunately the edit was just a typo fix. But in general, a commenter could abuse the editing feature to sneak in an edited version of the comment that the journal author wouldn't have unscreened.

I think when someone edits a comment in a context where screening is active, their edit should be like a new screened comment: that is, the old version should appear until the journal owner unscreens the edit (at which point the old version goes away).

Poll #11717 Screen comment edits when comments are screened

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 53

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Should be implemented as-is.
27 (50.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
9 (17.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (3.8%)

(I have no opinion)
15 (28.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[syderia]

With changes because maybe there should be a note on the old comment that it has been edited and the edit is waiting to be unscreened.

[swaldman]

OTOH, what if the commenter is really embarrassed about the pre-edited version... I'm tempted to suggest that this could be an option when saving the edit...

[azurelunatic]

I've observed no few edits being made because the commenter realized that they'd said something that they maybe didn't mind me knowing or would have said to me in a more private forum, but that contained information that didn't need to be shared with the whole internet.

Leaving the old version up would be enough of a change to expected behavior that if this happened, there should be something explaining what would happen on the edit screen.

Someone who's not okay with having the old version remain up would still be able to do the poor user's edit, the delete-and-repost.