[Bug 162424] Ability to assign comments to a different author

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162424

--- Comment #8 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Cor Nouws from comment #7)
> When author X simply adds a
> comment to the comment to show that, she/he's done, and there is not a
> chance of confusion over what happened with the comments (someone might
> notice).

First, there is absolutely some confusion, or at least clutter, as multiple
comments are more confusing/cluttering than one comment. But that's not the
point... the point is that what you suggest is an _undesired_ outcome in all 
those cases I mentioned. Specifically (by use case number): 

1. User does not want readers to see that unattributed comments had been made
(nor for them to wonder who made the attributed ones and who made the
unattributed ones).
2. User does not want readers to know they had had a mistake in their personal
info
3. User does not want readers to know which changes they made at work and which
at home.
4. User does not want readers to know about the existence of the extra author.
got comments from an author whose identity they do not want to disclose.
5. User does not want readers to be acknowledged by their pre-marital name, or
pre-sex-change name etc.
6. Here, the undesired outcome is the splitting into two comments. It's at
nitpick-level here - the extra comment could say "continuing author XYZ's
comment, blah blah blah" - which is not terrible. But what the author wanted is
to avoid this.

User wants to expand on the comment of another author (and comments are not
multi-author), with attribution being non-critical.

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