Select All Comments, Add Freeze/Unfreeze Option to Drop-Down Box

[madelienegrey]

Title:
Select All Comments, Add Freeze/Unfreeze Option to Drop-Down Box

Area:
Entries and Comments

Summary:
Include a "select all comments" button/feature near the drop-down box for screening, unscreening, deleting, and reporting comments as spam. Include the option to freeze/unfreeze multiple comments in the drop-down box, in addition to single comment freezing.

Description:
1. Users would be aided by the ability to select all comments on an entry for deletion, screening, unscreening, or reporting as spam. This feature could involve a single-click box by the drop-down box, to allow mass-handling of all entry comments. (In some cases, particularly entries generating a large number of comments and with multiple bouts of collapsed comments, selecting each comment individually to screen or unscreen can be a hassle.) It would be wise to include a verification page (or pop-up) for this feature for cases of deleting/reporting as spam/etc. so that users do not unintentionally delete all comments.

2. In light of the above, it would also be helpful to include the option to freeze/unfreeze multiple comments at one time, in addition to the AJAXing/allowing the user to select each comment individually. Adding the option to freeze/unfreeze to the drop-down box would solve this issue.

Poll #4946 Select All Comments, Add Freeze/Unfreeze Option to Drop-Down Box

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 43

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Should be implemented as-is.
19 (44.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
8 (18.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.3%)

(I have no opinion)
15 (34.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[ratcreature]

I'm vary of a single click "delete all" option unless there was an undo. I want at least a second click necessary for irreversible bulk action to avoid accidents.

[martyna]

I agree.

[dancing_serpent]

+1

[kerravonsen]

+1

[0jack]

From the suggestion: "It would be wise to include a verification page (or pop-up) for this feature for cases of deleting/reporting as spam/etc. so that users do not unintentionally delete all comments."

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I read that, but like I said, I'd rather have an undo instead of just an extra confirmation. And it also depends on how easily you click the confirmation. For example these ajaxy pop-ups that appear when you click tracking, I've clicked stuff in them accidentally because my mouse was right there already and I made a move my trackpad interpreted as clicking.

[cesy]

+1

[feathertail]

Do we have undo for any other kind of comment deletion activities?

If not, maybe we should just implement that as a separate suggestion.

[delladea]

+1

[jeliza]

Having an easy way to "select all" for just screened comments would be super handy when the spambots find you, though I would want some sort of confirmation step for a more general use of it.