Accept terms and conditions for anonymous posts?

Question

I want to allow anonymous questions and answers on my Q&A site only if the user accepts the terms and conditions (similar to user registration). Basically, I want a checkbox shown wherever the captcha is shown.

I'm aware that I can display a custom message, but I'm not sure if that is sufficient for consent under the GDPR.

Is there an option to enable such a checkbox? Or a plugin?

Comments

Terms and conditions are part of agreement between two or more parties.

If you allow anonymous posts, who are you agreeing with?

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The party posting (whoever they are) agrees to the terms for posting.

StackOverflow does the same thing to allow anonymous contributions.

Answer 1

After some digging it looks like what I want is to expand the notice that accompanies the captchas displayed for anonymous questions/answers. That text seems to be generated by this line in qa-include/app/captcha.php:

$notehtml = qa_insert_login_links(qa_lang_html('misc/captcha_login_fix'));

So I assume I need to patch that call, or maybe patch the additional text into qa-include/lang/qa-lang-misc.php.

Answer 2

Maybe you use to this plugin,

https://www.question2answer.org/qa/37749/q2a-logical-captcha-new-free-anti-spam-plugin-now-v1-1

do you accept the site terms? You can ask for the answer Y or yes.

https://github.com/amiyasahu/q2a-logical-captcha

Comments

Maybe change code, no text field,  just use checkbox

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Hmm... I'm using reCAPTCHA at the moment, but maybe I'll switch. I'll have a look at it tomorrow.

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better plugin
https://www.question2answer.org/qa/32263/new-premium-plugin-stop-spam-for-question2answer

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logical-captcha doesn't look like what I need. I'm not looking to replace the captcha with a confirmation checkbox, but include a note saying that the user agrees to the ToS when they click the "send" button.
As for stop-spam: I'm definitely not going to pay for a captcha.

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No its free
https://www.question2answer.org/qa/60712/q2apro-release-20-premium-plugins-now-free-and-open-source
I use too

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Ah. OK, I'll give it a try then. The link to the plugin in the post you linked to was dead, so I didn't look further.

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No, stop-spam is also not what I'm looking for. Some of the other plugins look interesting, though, so thanks anyway.