I thought I'd add this as a feature request on GitHub, but I'd like to know how the community feels about this first -
Given that all posts (top-level as well as responses), comments and replies have a unified primary key, would it be possible to add a moderation option that moves a given comment as a child to another post/comment/reply?
We could take the post ID as input and update the database so the parent ID of the entry is changed. Of course, a check to ensure the postID passed in is part of the current top-level posts's tree would ensure we don't throw content across top-level posts.
Given how often people make these mistakes of adding an answer where a comment was appropriate, do you think this is a viable solution? Is this problem worth solving, will this solution address this problem or will it open the door to a different universe of problems?
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
Yes please!
Whoever implements this will need to come up with a nice way of representing the ID of each comment/reply, which I imagine will be 95% of the work.
I think we should start simple - get the post ID in a textbox, run a verification and use that as input. We can move to complex UI later. We could limit the usage to admins (for the moment at least) so there is 0 chance of abuse.
EDIT: Better idea, we just get the entire permalink as input - the protocol to the get the link is then uniform across the board and defined in one of my how-tos. I was thinking ID because that's what we use for
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