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[Aaron Wells <1540534@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suppose what we can do is take the view that the artefact is being
viewed "from", and apply the moderation setting from that, to the
artefact comments.

However, there's still a loophole in this, which is that an artefact can
be viewed from multiple pages. So there's a high likelihood of a
confusing case arising where a user has placed an artefact in two
separate views, one with comment moderation enabled, and the other
without. And if we ever implement individual artefact access, that will
provide an even greater loophole; just access the artefact's page
directly.

I think the "comment moderation" setting was probably originally devised
without taking artefact comments into consideration. It would probably
be a good idea to give it a good think and see if we can come up with a
clever and more intuitive way to handle this. Like perhaps making a
user's comment moderation setting global instead of per-page; or making
it aware of "logged in" / "friend" / "logged-out".

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1540534

Title:
  Page comment moderation doesn't affect artefact comments

Status in Mahara:
  Confirmed
Status in Mahara 1.10 series:
  Confirmed
Status in Mahara 15.04 series:
  Triaged
Status in Mahara 15.10 series:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Seen on mahara.org and tested on latest master (16.04).

  When you turn on comment moderation for a page, that moderation only
  goes for page comments but not artefact comments. Artefact comments
  should be treated the same in that regard as there is no separate
  moderation possibility. This loophole can be misused by anonymous
  people to post comments on an artefact that are immediately visible to
  everyone.

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