[Bug 161978] Suppress editing of comments from other authors

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161978

--- Comment #4 from Gerry <gerry.treppel at googlemail.com> ---
Having worked with many long documents, books, reports with many comments by
different reviewers, I do not see a big issue with the current state that
anyone can edit existing comments. I have not seen any misuse of the current
feature.

However, if you consider it problematic that others can change a comment
without any remark that the comment was newly edited, I suggest the following:
-> Add a remark that the comment was edited by user xyz

I would totally oppose to block editing a comment by some other user. This
would break many workflows that people are using. For example, if I am writing
a book with co-authors and reviewers, then I would like to add info to the
comment e.g. formulating the rough idea of the comment or just to add who is
going to work on the comment (without replying to it) or to delete info that
has already been completed or that I don't agree with (without deleting the
comment entirely or re-creating a new one). 

Also, the idea to track changes in a comment, seems to be overly clunky, as it
makes the comments very long with all the changes. Also, the changed stuff in
the comments would appear in the "Manage changes" list, which should not be the
case.

Concluding: I like the idea to add the info to a comment that "user xy changed
comment on Jul 25 18:00)", but I think more is not necessary.

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