Making comments invisible

[patrickc]

Is there already a possibility for making comments invisible? This would be a nice feature if you want to hide a spam comment from the user but keep the data of the comment.

Regards
Patrick

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

There's currently no function for this in the serendipity core, but if you'd operate on the database directly, you could set the status to "pending".

I do think it's a nice feature though to be able to "re-moderate" comments. I'll see if it can be added to s9y easily.

Regards,
Garvin

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Okay, I've just added this to the upcoming 1.3 version, SVN trunk.

Regards,
Garvin

[patrickc]

Hello Garvin,

thanks a lot for your response and for implementing this so quickly

Regards
Patrick

[metalcoat]

Along these lines would it be possible to give the user to choose whether they can hide their own comments to say just the administration or certain people?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Along these lines would it be possible to give the user to choose whether they can hide their own comments to say just the
administration or certain people?

That would mean a massive code change and new feature integration, as it cannot be dealt with in current situations. A new type apart from "approved" and "moderated" would need to be created and distinctly handled.

I don't really know if this feature would be good for more than just a few people - if someone wanted to comment privately, why don't those people just send an email, maybe? I'd think putting those kind of comments not in the blog might be better, because you also couldn't get a proper reply to such a "private" comment?

Technically, this is quite challenging. It can be done, but is a matter of many hours of coding to make it work well and integrate fully...

Regards,
Garvin

[metalcoat]

thanks for the reply, I don't see this as something that people would want, just kind of wondered if it was something that i could do easily, thanks though