Guests' abilities

[Mike Rotch]

I was wondering, what abilities do "guests" have? Below is an attachment of "Guest sending PM". I have also seen "Guest moderating" and "Guest Quoting in thread".

I thought guests could only view posts

 

[Jugend]

They can only view posts.

But if you, as a guest hit the reply, pm or any other function you get a login message, but in the "who's online" page their attempted action is showed.

 

[Mike Rotch]

Ahhh. Thanks 👍

 

[Jugend]

Np.

 

[Max Powers]

If I'm not mistaken, invisible members show up as guests as well.

 

[Acidman]

I've also noticed this, but it seems that Sublime is most likely correct.

 

[Super-Supra]

Not really. I'm not sure but I think there just bots searchin out hidden linkhs of GTP or something?

 

[Jordan]

This has been discussed many times before. Guests are simply clicking on links to pages they can't view, so they are shown a page that prompts them to register or log-in. They will still be shown as viewing the page as normal. This will be "fixed" when we upgrade to vB3.

 

[Super-Supra]

Jordan, I believe it hasn't. At the vB3 running forum I goto, when I veiw the Online page, I can still veiw what Guests are veiwing. This may be the fact that I have Administrative access.

EDIT: That forum is running vBulletin Version 3.0.0 Release Candidate 3.

 

[Jordan]

Hmmm... That assumption was from the code that I saw in one of the templates. I just double-checked, and it does display whatever they're trying to do. However, it now includes a red icon to show if a guest or any other user is viewing a "no permission" error message on that page. I suppose it's that way in case you have guest posting enabled in a few specific forums of the site.

 

[Super-Supra]

From the picture I took of, that forum has guest posting disabled.

 

[Jordan]

That's what I figured, I was just speculating as to why the vB3 developers opted to use the "no permission error" icon instead of changing their location text completely.