By riaan burger on

Hey guys, I hope someone can help me or at least tell me that I'm barking up the wrong tree with this:

I have forums with taxonomy_access set up as follows for authenticated users:

permissions for comment module:
access comments ticked
post comments ticked
post comments without approval ticked

permissions for forum module:
create forum topics ticked

For category permissions I then select:
view: allow
update: deny (was ignore, but I now made it explicitely deny)
delete: ignore
create: ticked
list: ticked

Now I would have thought that would mean users cannot edit their own post and comments in the forums. I uysed a test account just now as a plain authenticated user, poted a comment and lo, there's an edit option for my comment. Am I doing something wrong here? We just passed 10 000 posts on the site (two weeks old) and I'm a little worried about this; worried that this may be the only way Drupal handles comments, if so, will I have to write custom stuff and shut down the site in the mean time?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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sepeck commented

By default, a user can edit their comments unless someone has replied to them. (Unless that user has edit nodes rights, then they can edit anything.

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riaan burger’s picture

riaan burger commented

Thanks sepeck,

I'll have to take on that comments module for a rewrite (flatten it at the same time) to fix it up for our community then. There's a lot of accountability issues that can be dodged if you are able to edit your own comments. Likely less of a problem on development sites like drupal.org, but a big prob for community sites.

Thanks for the point-out, I asked peopel to just be patient for a while all the niggles will be ironed out in the end.

dkruglyak’s picture

dkruglyak commented

There seems to be a problem. When reply is not to a comment, but to the whole thread, the comment remains editable. When that comment is edited its date is set to now and thus the comments gets moved to the end of a thread - messing up the flow.

This is a very problematic behavior that I am seeing in 4.7.3. Here is a filed issue: http://drupal.org/node/73399