Permit journal owners to view and moderate comments on comments-disabled entries

[niqaeli]

Title:
Permit journal owners to view and moderate comments on comments-disabled entries

Area:
journal administration, comments

Summary:
Make it possible for the journal owner to view and moderate comments on entries that have had comments disabled.

Description:
Currently if comments are disabled on a post after comments have been made, the comments continue to exist but there is no way for the journal owner to view or moderate those comments without re-enabling comments.

Basically, I want the journal owner to be able to view and moderate comments, even after they've been disabled on an entry. This could basically just be a view of the comments page, with the reply links and whatnot disabled but all other moderation tools available. Obviously this would need to be a view *only* the journal owner can access.

This would be really useful in a number of situations, but off the top of my head: if a journal or entry comes under either spam or troll attack and is being defaced, it would allow the journal owner to shut down the public display of comments while permitting them to clean things up in their own time.

More flexible comment moderation tools in general might help reduce the need for this but even then, it could still be useful. And as it stands right now, we still have pretty limited tools. This would at least let people have better access to those tools.

I honestly don't see much of a downside to be had to this, in terms of user experience. I can't think of how it would be detrimental to anyone's use of the site, and it would provide functionality that lets people have more control over their space.

Poll #2253 Permit journal owners to view and moderate comments on comments-disabled entries

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 42

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Should be implemented as-is.
34 (81.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
7 (16.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.4%)

(I have no opinion)
0 (0.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[jeeps]

i chose 'with changes', since i think one should have the option to disable comments WITHOUT removing all of the comments that have already been made.

[denise]

That's something we plan to do, yes: split it into "disallow new comments past now", and "disallow new comments while hiding all the ones that are already there".

[ratcreature]

That would be awesome!

[turlough]

Yay!

[saekhwa]

Oh, that would be great!

[kyrielle]

That will be wonderful - thank you!