Editing other blog comments?

[Auticorn]

I've noticed that you can edit the comment of something said on your blog. It seems kind of weird to me because I think you should only be able to edit your own blog comments, and not another person's blog comment as well. O_o

 

[Nihilego]

wat

That shouldn't be happening. I'll look into it later.

 

[Auticorn]

I didn't think so. It's been there for a while, but I've never really said anything until now. Not sure why but... I guess I figured it was normal for something. O_o This is the first time I've actually clicked it and seen you can ACTUALLY change what someone has said to me on my blog. I didn't change what the person said, of course. I just got curious about it.

 

[Volcarona]

Posted April 15th, 2012 at 10:25 PM by Jak Jak is offline
Updated Today at 02:47 PM by Volcarona

Yeahhh I can edit blog comments as well, but it'll leave an indication that the comment was edited.

 

[Pendraflare]

Yeah, I just had a look at my blog and turns out that is indeed possible for you to do.

I don't think this is that weird, because if someone says something rude on your blog that you don't want there, wouldn't you want to edit it out? Granted i've never had to do that but I think it might be something to prevent hurtful comments.

 

[3749374]

Yeah this must have been left on (by default I think it might be). To adjust this setting do the following:

When adding / editing a usergroup at Usergroups > Usergroup Manager > Edit Usergroup in the right column you will find the following permissions:

Set the top permission to "no" for all relevant usergroups (bar maybe S-mod/Admin). If it is left on, the ability for users to manage their own blog comments (both theirs and others), allowing them to both delete, edit and moderate them as they see fit is granted to them.

I'm assuming that this option has been set to "Yes" for some/all usergroups with blog permissions. Anyway, that may help.

 

[Nihilego]

o.

that probably wasn't seen to when the new supporter groups were added. i got so confused there haha. thanks!

edit: okay what it all looks right to me aaaaaa
edit 2: okay should be fixed now. if someone can test and report back that'd be great

 

[Tsutarja]

I don't think this is that weird, because if someone says something rude on your blog that you don't want there, wouldn't you want to edit it out? Granted i've never had to do that but I think it might be something to prevent hurtful comments.

If you feel that a comment doesn't belong on the blog, you could simply report the blog post (even if it's your own or somebody else's) and indicate that you're reporting a user's comment and not the whole post.

o.

that probably wasn't seen to when the new supporter groups were added. i got so confused there haha. thanks!

edit: okay what it all looks right to me aaaaaa
edit 2: okay should be fixed now. if someone can test and report back that'd be great

I can't say for certain because mod permissions, but I'm still able to edit comments left by others on my blog, and unfortunately I don't have access to blogs on any other of my alts to confirm if it's fixed there.

 

[Zeffy]

I can confirm that you could still edit blog comments. However, I'm on a different usergroup as well so that might be something worth looking at, too.

 

[Auticorn]

I did notice it's been fixed on my user group, but I can't confirm that for anyone else who isn't in my user group.

 

[Spinor]

Nope. Can't edit blog comments myself anymore.

Shame, I had a bit of fun with this years ago.

 

[Rukario]

We're noticing a glitch in the PC matrix.. it seems disabling allow editing also disables the ability for bloggers to moderate any moderated comments on their blog. Hold on about this as we work on finding a solution.