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Mark private DM comments somehow
I recieved a comment via Mastodon that was in fact a DM (direct message) not intended to become a public comment.
It was just not published because it's content suggested that the message was intended to be private so I didn't approve it in the moderation queue.
I'm aware that a "private" message in the context of ActivityPub is a hit and miss but without any hint that a comment was in fact a private DM there is no way to tell from the WordPress admin interface.
Mayhap a custom comment-type would help.
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Private messages are now ignored and will be not added to the comments section!
Which means we can't be aware that someone mentioned us (our blog) ? And not ability to warn them in case it was a visibility error ? Couldn't they be placed as "awaiting approval" instead ? And maybe with some highlighting that this was private/a DM.
I would not do that ("awaiting approval"), because the risk is too high, that it will be approved by accident. What about sending the message via E-Mail?
Yeah that's another option :)
And it could include a warning / explanation that this was DM and so on.