[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #64839: Comments: add ability for site visitors to edit / delete their own comments

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#64839: Comments: add ability for site visitors to edit / delete their own comments
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 Reporter:  jeherve          |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Comments         |    Version:
 Severity:  normal           |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui               |
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 Nowadays, most social networks allow their users some control over the
 comments and posts they publish on the platform: you can often either
 delete your comments entirely, or edit them. This sometimes comes with
 some safeguards:

 - When a comment / post has been edited, it is shown in the UI (sometimes
 with an edit date, sometimes with access to a revisions view)
 - Edits are sometimes only allowed for a short period of time after a
 comment has been published.
 - Platforms allowing you to delete your posts / comments will sometimes
 display a placeholder instead of a deleted comment, to avoid causing too
 much confusion for future readers by breaking the flow of the
 conversation.

 I think that WordPress itself could potentially offer such a feature. We
 already do allow commenters to see their own comments while they're in the
 moderation queue. I think we could leverage that further to allow
 commenters to see an "Edit" and / or "Delete" link when they're visiting a
 post where they've commented in the past, as long as they're in the same
 browser.

 We could offer additional options or controls:

 - Site owners who want to retain full control over the conversations on
 their site should be able to turn off that functionality.
 - The "Edit" / "Delete" links could be remove in theme templates.
 - Site owners may want to limit this "edit" functionality to registered
 users on their site => this may actually be an easier implementation to
 begin with, where we would rely on the user being logged in to the site to
 show the "Edit" / "Delete" link.

 For reference, here is a plugin that implements some of this
 functionality:
 https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-comment-editing/

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