Only article author can give plus/minus to comments below

[eMCe71]

Hello,

is there a way to set Jcomments in a way that only article's author could give plus/minuses (thumb up/thumb down) to the comments to his article?

I have a website with quizzes and only author knows solution so I don't want other user to rate other's comments.

Thanks

[smart]

It could be solved by small hack in JComments' template:

1. Open /components/com_jcomments/tpl/deafult/tpl_comment.php
2. Find code:

Code:

$this->getCommentVote( $comment );

and replace it with:

Code:

$acl = JCommentsFactory::getACL();
if ($acl->isObjectOwner($comment)) {
$this->getCommentVote( $comment );
}

In this case vote buttons would be shown for article's owner only.