Also - anonymous posting...

[lancey]

I was reading Jakob Nielsen's article about getting more people to participate in social media, and one of the points he makes is that you have to make it as easy as possible for people to get involved.

I think, especially if you have a new site with not many existing users, it's important to let people contribute without having to go to the trouble of setting up an account. If there are already lots of people using the site, they might be more willing to make the effort to set up an account, but while your site is still new it's unlikely that they will bother, so you have to make it as easy as possible for them to contribute.

For this reason, I think it would be great to have a section in the control panel that allows admins to choose the level of privelege that anonymous users can have, such as:

0) None.
1) Vote on stories only.
2) Vote and comment on stories only.
3) Vote, comment and submit stories.

[jackmewire]

That is exactly what we need. However, I would like to see commenting working similar like with blogs - where user can enter name, email and website - plus need to pass a captcha image verification to ban spammers as good as possible.

Kind regrads,

jackmewire

[RockBottom]

i have to agree, this would be a good feature

[en3r0]

I agree as well, but I'd rather see 9.1 first

[popf]

I need this too .. i want building a open pligg site.

[sunstardude]

Any way to allow anonymous submitting and commenting in 9.5? I really need this for a project I'm working on. Thanks.

[dollars5]

It can be accomplished by creating an user named "Anonymous" and removing the force_login check to allow anonymous user to substitute when there is no active user login found.

The steps are detailed at http://forums.pligg.com/showpost.php...4&postcount=16 for anonymous submission, it can easily be modified for anonymous comments too.

[davemackey]

I have created in conjunction with dollars5 a module that offers blog style anonymous commenting. Will try to contribute back to the community within next week or two.
David.

[pxlpshr]

I just sent you a PM on this Dave, would love to get a hold of the module... would you be willing to email it to me?

[jkjunkfilter]

Same here, I'd be interested in this module for anonymous commenting and submission as well.

Thanks in advance!

JB