On my site, we use comment notify only with anonymous users and handle authenticated user/author/admin notifications using other means (e.g., subscriptions, Rule triggers). We use the 'subscribe to comments' permission to determine who gets the comment_notify UI.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work for roles with admin access to the comments (e.g., moderators), because comment_notify uses 'administer comments' permission to determine who gets access to it.

Patch included.

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greggles
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Status: Active » Needs work

Thanks for the issue and patch.

The idea of this permission check is that when an admin modifies someone else's comment they can see and edit the subscription status.

We could change that check to add a test for whether they are editing a comment that is NOT by them and they have administer comments permission.

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Hi lirazsiri, will you be able to incorporate my suggestion into your patch?

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OddJob commented

What is the status of this - does the patch need to be reworked with greggles suggestions? For 6.x and 7.x?

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greggles
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Issue summary: View changes
Status: Needs work » Closed (outdated)

6.x is no longer supported and in my review I believe this does not affect 7.x, so marking as outdated. If this issue is still relevant for 7.x, please reopen.