XF 2.2 Can a poll be set up to allow guests to vote?

[Spartan]

Unregistered users?

 

[TPerry]

AFAIK, guests be set to vote on polls via the user group.



Now how that is effectively tracked.. I have no clue.. and haven't pursued it since that level of activity I personally limit to engaged members.

 

[Rusty Snippets]

Unless something has changed, I don’t think a guest can vote on polls.

 

[Paul B]

Guests cannot vote on polls, react to content, and a few other things.

The user group permissions exist because that group also covers members who have not confirmed their accounts.

 

[digitalpoint]

Internally they can’t because guests all share the same user ID (0), so anything that is done by user_id (mostly things that @Paul B pointed out), can’t work for guests.

 

[L3gacy]

Then why have it as a option? I was banging my head around trying to see why after setting that option to yes it was not working

 

[Paul B]

I already answered that above.

The user group permissions exist because that group also covers members who have not confirmed their accounts.

 

[Kirby]

Then why have it as a option? I was banging my head around trying to see why after setting that option to yes it was not working

Unfortunatley, this often causes confusion.

There is a note on the User group permissions page that permissions may only apply to logged in users, but this can be overlooked quite easily and isn't present onEdit usergroup (or any other place wthere permissions for this usergroup may be configured):



I therefore still think we need another approach to better communicate how permissions can be applied.

K

Thread 'Flag Loggedin-only permissions'

Nov 9, 2023

XenForo treats logged out visitors ("Guests") and logged in but unconfirmed visitors ("Members") somewhat equal - they both get their permissions from usergroup Unregistered / Unconfirmed.

So when editing this usergroup there are many permissions like

• Use push notifiations
• Upload an avatar
• Upload a profile banner
• ...

that can (currently) only be applied to Members - they have no effect on Guests.

While it may be "logical" that some permissions can't be applied to guests, in some cases this is not so obvious and may cause confusion.

My suggestion is to...

• Kirby
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