Moderators cannot delete or edit other user comments?
mr.j - January 4, 2008 - 06:30
| Project: | Forum Access |
| Version: | 5.x-1.8 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | duplicate |
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Description
I'm not sure if my expectations are right on this one...
I've assumed that assigning a moderator to a forum will give them permission to edit and/or delete other users' comments after they are posted.
So far I cannot see this working. The moderators are able to edit/delete the forum topic itself but none of the individual comments, unless of course they wrote them.
Am I missing something?
#1
I have to look into this...
#2
Yes, indeed, I'm seeing the same thing. This is a sorely missing feature!
#3
I have worked out that you can do this manually by creating a drupal user role (eg "moderator") and giving the role the "administer comments" permission. But it is unclear whether "administer comments" gives them wider permissions than what I intend.
For me, this module has limited usefulness without that functionality.
#4
I believe it gives them the rights to edit/delete all the comments on the site.
#5
Ah in that case then it is not a proper solution as I would prefer moderators only be able to edit / delete all comments inside the forum to which they have been assigned as a moderator.
#6
This is kind of the whole point of the moderator functionality. Is there any movement on this?
Something I have considered trying to do, is to create a new role that shows up in the access control interface that is used as the rights for the forum_access moderators. Basically it would allow you to give the moderators more fine grain control of the content they moderate. I would have to patch or rewrite forum_access so that it looks at that moderation role when determining what rights should be given to the moderators. I took a look at the code today, but it is not very obvious how to do that and there arnt very many comments in the code to help. If anyone has some suggestions for me or any feedback please contact me...
Cheers...
#7
I'd say comment moderation is the remaining third of the moderator functionality.
The problem is not a lack of more fine-grained control of the moderator permissions. It's that Drupal core does not provide any mechanisms for controlling comment access like it does for node access.
IMO, moderators should have full access to nodes/threads (working) and comments (to do) in the forum that they moderate. I see no need for more fine-grained control.
Right now, I'm pouring hundreds of hours of my spare time into rewriting the Subscriptions module, which has higher priority. If you want to create some movement and provide a patch, then I'll be happy to look at it.
#8
Thanks. I appreciate any effort in this direction.
Is there any news about it?
Right now the moderators can indeed erase a whole thread but cannot erase/edit a specific comment.
#9
Hi lads!
Any progress in this direction? I think this function (editing and deleting thread comments) would be very useful at every forum with forum_access already installed.
Thanks in advance.
#10
Subscribe
#11
subsribing, this is the missing part for me to be able to use this module
#12
Implemented in #310254-15: Control posting rights for comments/replies in D5 for D6.
Marking this as duplicate because the other thread lead to the breakthrough.