Question2Answer Q&A - Recent questions tagged guest

Show default avatar for guests?

Mon, 30 Jul 2018 20:51:04 +0000

Maybe it's too late, but is an avatar displayed for guests?

Cannot find the enable option.

Needed: Require confirmation of email for post notification for guests

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 20:24:05 +0000

I have q2a setup that guests can ask questions without registration.

The main problem: When they add their email address in the last field for notification, many of them state wrong emails. This results in many incoming emails "Mail Delivery Failed" in my email account.

Another problem: What if someone adds an email address of a complete different person.

Solution approach 1: Only allow registered users (with email confirmed) to ask. But this would limit the number of incoming questions.

Solution approach 2: Send an email to the email given and ask for confirmation. ← This approach seems good enough.

I would also suggest to store this email as valid email later on so it does not need to be validated again.

Any opinions?

How to prevent guests from browsing the list of questions

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:06:08 +0000

We set up our Q2A instance and it is intended to be used by authenticated users only, logging in with their LDAP credentials. Registration is disabled and Q2A users are automatically created on first login.

What we now need is a way to deny public access to the list of questions. I know there's a configuration setting ''View question pages: Registered users", but this does not prevent guests from browsing the list of questions.

We want to also prevent search engines from indexing the list of questions. There's an option "Allow search engines to view question pages", but I can speculate that this refers to the actual question and not to the list of questions, by association with the similar option referring to users.

What would be the corret approach for these two issues?

Thanks!

Allow non-registered users to ask questions, answer and comment

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:55:59 +0000

Is there a way to enable non registered users to post questions, comments and answers without registering? I would like to have this option, but with reCaptcha required. I think this would help getting more questions and answers from people that dont want to take the time to register.

Allow voting to quest

Mon, 27 Jun 2016 09:08:26 +0000

Is there any way to allow the quest also voting for questions ? I searching for the solution but many user asking but there was no answer. In the administrator panel i see the permission settings but there i can only allow voting for question for registered users

Tip: prevent anonymous users without IP to answer or comment

Tue, 05 Apr 2016 15:04:59 +0000

Just a tip for you, in case you have a troll like I have in my forum that visits you without IP address - and you in general allow guests to answer/comment. In other words: He can always interact with your forum --- but not anymore with this:

You can remove the answer-comment-buttons by this code in your advanced theme (qa-theme.php):

    // prevent anonymous users without IP to answer or comment, allow on ask page
   public function form_buttons($form, $columns)
   {
       $isaskpage = ($this->template == 'ask');
       $userid = qa_get_logged_in_userid();
       $userip = qa_remote_ip_address();
       if($isaskpage || !empty($userip) || !empty($userid))
       {
           // call default method output
           qa_html_theme_base::form_buttons($form, $columns);
       }
   }

This feature is also part of the premium stop spam plugin.

Regards,
Kai

Site loads with unwanted characters for guest users when “W3 Total Cache” is defined in wp-config.php

Sat, 26 Jul 2014 03:09:01 +0000

When a user is logged in, site loads without any problem but if a guest user visit the site, it shows some characters same as this:

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and nothing else shows

Im using Q2A with wordpress integrated

Edit:

I found that Q2A get in trouble when I define "W3 Total Cache" in wp-config.php

Show a message just to unregistered or anonymous users

Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:22:54 +0000

I have this site where I let anonymous questions to be posted, but I realized that some users don't really want to post as an anon but just don't know they are doing it.

Is there a way to show a message in the ask page ( mysite.com/ask ) that just for unregistered or anon users? so I can put a warning like "You are asking a question as an anon, if you want, you can register here"

Thanks

Edit:

Using the idea given by q2apro.com I find that I need to add this in the place where I want the message to appear (in my case below $this->nav_main_sub(); inside qa-theme.php of the snow theme)

if (!qa_is_logged_in()) {

$this->output('MY MESSAGE');}

But I don't know how to check if I'm in the ask page or don't.

Public voting logged by ip adress ?

Fri, 09 May 2014 21:19:51 +0000

Is it possible or hard to do privilage to guests as well as users voting on questions ? Votes should be logged by ip . Can someone set on the road for doing that feature ?

Voting spam from diferent IP's is not issue.

Thanks for any answers

EDIT: I see alot of people interested in this possibility: 1, 2, 3, 4,

How to allow non-registered users to post & vote as a guest or anonymous?

Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:58:30 +0000

Is it possible to allow non-registered users to interact or login as "guest" or "anonymous" to post questions, answers, and VOTE? I am mainly interested the ability for anonymous/guest voting, as it would make the site more user friendly and provide a good option for people who don't want bother with registering in order to interact with the site. I see there have been a number of questions from people interested in allowing anonymous voting, but the answers have been that it would require a code-overhaul in order to track IP's to control voting limits. Is there not a work-around where all anonymous users could logon or interact under a guest account? Thanks for any input or advice on this!

How to disable guest comments, voting and questions?

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:21:57 +0000

How to disable guest comments, voting and questions?

I want to disable guest to comment, vote and asking qustion.

Anonymous users must enter email

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:17:57 +0000

Does anyone know how to configure script that guest will have to enter their email if they want to post question or answer to them?