[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20977: Add Dynamic Comment Statuses

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#20977: Add Dynamic Comment Statuses
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 Reporter:  supercleanse              |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Comments                  |     Version:  3.4
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch dev-feedback  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by leedxw):

 We currently have a need for a comment status beyond those available.

 We have clients who:

 a) requires approval for all comments
 b) will mark trash and spam as such
 c) will mark approved all comment to be published on the page
 but
 d) by policy, will not "trash" comments that are not covered by b or c
 (this isn't something that will change)

 So we end up with blogs with hundreds of admin-viewed and assessed
 comments that are still marked as pending.

 This:

 1) makes the admin-bar showing pending comments less useful
 2) causes admins to reread pending comments that were already (manually)
 not approved
 3) causes Akismet to reassess years of pending comments every time someone
 clicks the "check for spam button"

 I've had a look, and I suspect we can't safely implement custom status via
 a plugin without potentially breaking functionality in third-party code.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20977#comment:10>
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