Anonymous Posts & Comments

Hi Mr Rafi,

I feel very strongly about this. It's an issue that people are going mental about on both the Forum and Blog. I personally feel that the commenting process only should be open to anyone to comment. As long as they put their name. Right now the login process it to heavy and as you said above 'intimidating' - it also isn't mobile friendly (the login screen) it's very buggy.

I can see why you have done it this way, to protect spam, but it really is causing us to not have engagement because people do not want to sign up for an account to comment a few words.

I understand your question about this request.

As far as I'm concerned, I have a lot of trouble getting people to participate in the Forum as they gain access to all the other pages of the site.

I think that having to identify oneself is a big obstacle to many people coming to participate in the Forum.

It is for this reason that I asked the possibility of being able to post on the Forum without step of identification.

I am sure that my Forum without identification (for those who wish) would be more effective.

Thank you

I don't particularly like it because we lose the perks you mentioned, but there are times when people don't want to identify themselves, mostly when asking personal questions or asking about things they're embarrassed about or concerned about bullying from admitting.

I don't want this feature, at least have the option to turn it off. I don't like the idea of visitors posting without logging in.

Of course, it should be an option: on or off.

No no no! I am STRONGLY against anonymous posting in the Forum. Many of our FB users (mostly female sadly) have stopped commenting in FB cos of bullying and harassment and we are convincing them to consider moving to our Forum cos we have more direct control over who can post and when and more easily block users and profiles. Please don't implement this. The addition of existing FB log ins etc is enough.

Why be so sectarian, since this might be an option you put in place or not?

If you do not want it, you do not put it in place and you stay with your Forum as it is today!

I would prefer anonymous comments with the option to first approve their comments before they go live. The reason being is because many students sometimes ask questions in these forum that to them might be embarrassing to tell their friends thats why they go on online forums to find other peoples opinions without being poked fun at. Especially in the university campus' these anonymous forums are needed. I would just like to have the ability to accept the comment/question before it goes live.

Is this a possibility? Will we be able to have this feature added on?

The key thing for me is that the Forum should not default to anonymous posting. It looks like some people need the feature but it should be an opt in not a default please.

I see this is evolved to very interesting discussion - this is great, exactly what I've wanted.

First of rest assure that if we will have it - you'll be able to choose.

Second - the people that do want it, if is it just for so people won't recognize you - you can always sign up with a different email or not write your full name (your email anyone is not seen by anyone).

I'll ask you that - how you expect anonymous to get back to your community? he wouldn't know about new comments cause he won't get notifications.

Rafi maybe an idea is to have all posts connected to an account so they get notifications, but have an option on posts that says “use an alias” or ”post anonymously” and it just shows no links to their profile but they still can get notifications?

Hi Rafi

I know exactly who are the members of my forum, because they are also all members of the Golf Club.

But a lot of them, don't acces the forum, because they don't want sign on the site.

I am sur they will participe more if they can go on the forum without having to sign.

I do not see where the problem is as far as each forum owner could choose the option for his forum; with or without identification.

Janettee - this is great idea :)

Robert - why they don't want to signup to the site? they have a reason?

Rafi

Hard to know exactly. Either they are shy, or suspicious of providing information, or they consider they are actually members of this site being members of the club !!!

I think there may also be confusion between signing up for the newsletter and being a member of the forum.

The fact is that out of more than 400 members, very few are registered at the Forum, while the audience on the site is quite strong.

#Rafi , Can you do that all people can comment ( user and alias #Janettee ), but only user can Create a new post

I would like to be able to hide the identity of members because they are young and because we do not like to give out full names of under 18s. There is currently no way to do this safely.

Hi :-)

How can i set that users dont have to log in to write something. I dont want a log in for my forum :-)

3rd type: Every user can read and write. No login...

In Facebook all use his own names and share this and that but in forums they want to be anonymous...lol

I am trying to set up the new blog on my site, and the required login in is very cumbersome. Could it not be as simple as when they go to reply to a post the name is required with the option to include their email? As a blog I do not want anyone creating post other than myself, but do want them to be able to comment on post. It seems the blog is being treated like a forum which is very odd since they have very different functions.

#DrYannickNM I saw that, but I still say that a blog should not be treated like a forum. They are not interchangeable and serve two completely different functions. A forum is more along the lines of Facebook where anyone that is on your friends list (ie a member) can originate post on your wall. A blog is more like Instagram where friends can respond to post but only the owner can make original post. There is a huge difference with functionality between the to. The "New Blog" is misnamed because it is not a blog app, but rather a forum app.