Bring back a global default comments settings page. [#190471]

With Drupal 6 we now have the power to set comment settings per content type:

/admin/content/types/

This is progress!

However, it also sets us back a bit. Now we need a place to set global defaults which can be overridden by individual content-type settings.

With the current Drupal 6 approach, a site manager who doesn't like the default settings needs to remember to set comment settings every time a new content type is created.

It also makes it difficult to conduct site wide usability experiments. For example, "Let's try collapsed as opposed to expanded" display of comments and ask our users what they think. With the current approach, you have to go into each content type and change the settings one at a time.

I think the logical place to house the settings would be at the URL used in previous Drupal versions: /admin/content/comment/settings.

Just like there are per theme and global theme settings. It would make sense for there to be global and per content type comments settings.

Shai
content2zero

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Comment #1

ge CreditAttribution: ge commented 20 March 2009 at 03:00

+1 on this suggestion; I dislike the default comment settings and wish to change the defaults, but first I have to change them individually for each built-in content type. I hope Drupal 7 will allow default sitewide comment settings to be controlled in a single place.