[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #63931: Deleting a parent comment causes the child to move up a level

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#63931: Deleting a parent comment causes the child to move up a level
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 Reporter:  oglekler     |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Comments     |    Version:
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:               |
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 Use case: Imagine that someone wrote something bad and it was published,
 another person replied that "Buddy, you are completely wrong," and then
 the admin removed the parent comment. And now the reply appears as related
 to the post or comment on a higher level comment that makes no sense.

 There can be several approaches:
 1. Prevent deleting if a comment has children, and only delete with
 children.
 2. Keep the comment in the database empty with a placeholder that it was
 deleted, and keep children related to it. It can also be shown as deleted
 on the front end. I believe that social networks do this way.
 3. Move children to pending, also marking that they were related to the
 deleted comment.

 I count this as a bug, but the fix needs enhancement.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63931>
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