Hi there,

I am trying to make a site where registered users can discuss complex information. I want anonymous users to be able to contribute with comments, but without seeing what other people have commented. In my imagination this is very simple: just disable 'access comments' and enable 'post comments' for anon. For authenticated users (or a special role) I would then enable 'post without approval' and 'access comments'.

When I test this, however, the 'access comments' permission when disabled overrides the ability to post comments. In fact there is not even a link to login for comments at the place where comments would be.

So I suppose the best solution would be to add a new permission for comments called 'view comments' and rename 'access comments' to 'access comment feature'. This would be enough to get rid of the confusion that access comments could mean the same as view comments...

What do you think? Is this a feature request or a bug report? I am wondering what the chances are that I can work with comments the way I described anytime soon on a production site?!

Comments

LindenLion’s picture

Project: Drupal core »
Version: 6.x-dev »
Component: comment.module » usability
Category: feature » bug

Two things in order of priority, the first one is a usability issue, the second is a feature request:

  • rename 'access comments' to 'access comment feature'
  • add a 'view comments' permission'

Sutharsan’s picture

Project: » Drupal core
Version: » 7.x-dev

Moving issues from User experience project to Drupal core usability component.

marcingy’s picture

Category: bug » feature
marcingy’s picture

Version: 7.x-dev » 8.x-dev
Component: usability » ajax system

Bumping to d8

rfay’s picture

Component: ajax system » comment.module
jhedstrom’s picture

Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Closing due to inactivity. This can be achieved in contrib. Please re-open if there is interest in pursuing this for core.