Show user and time of person that edited a comment

[Alex Cumberland]

Version:  JIRA Server 8.4.2

Is there a way that when a comment is edited (responded to)  that it flags the user doing the edit flagged inside the comment?  It is my understanding that when a comment is edited or changed that it is deleted and replaced by the new comment in full so that no history is kept.  I have been looking through plugins but so far found mostly for the Cloud but then I just started searching.   So any recommendations or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

The idea in mind is so it would look something like this :

All   Comments     Work Log     History   Activity

_____________________________________________________________

  John Smith added a comment - 1 hour ago - edited

     This is my comment about this issue

   Jane Smith edited comment - 15 min ago

         This issue looks like a good idea..

_________________________________________________________________

J. Doe added a comment - 30 min ago

   I will schedule a meeting after Jane weighs in on this issue.

_________________________________________________________________

Instead of like this :

All   Comments     Work Log     History   Activity

_____________________________________________________________

  John Smith added a comment - 15 min ago - edited

     This is my comment about this issue

         This issue looks like a good idea..

_________________________________________________________________

J. Doe added a comment - 30 min ago

   I will schedule a meeting after Jane weighs in on this issue.

_________________________________________________________________

[Alex Cumberland · Accepted solution]

So it can not be done with out the use of a plugin and changing the way that Comments are handled by JIRA.   That is what I figured and was afraid of.

[Jack Nolddor _Sweet Bananas_ · Accepted solution]

Hi Alex, you can find who and when the comment was edited by hovering the mouse in the red edited word as shown here:

Also if you edited the comment (using the pencil icon), the information is displayed together with the original persona who wrote the comment as shown here:

Sadly, there is no out-of-the-box feature to display this information directly in the tab,

Kind Regards