Question Posting as anonymous

Ok, I have had a look through here, saw this www.kunena.org/forum/5-General-Talk-abou...-a-kunena-discussion , but cannot reply, so posting.

This is similar to what I want, but don't want 2 accounts per users. That seems very odd.

My forum is for registered users only, I don't stop people registering. And don't pre approve accounts.

As my forum does discuss illnesses and embarrassing things, I would like to add 1 category that if someone posts into it does not attach that users profile to (no name or avatar). But this category I don't want public.

So for that 1 category it acts like it's public and can be posted to without a registered member, but only for registered members.


Can this be done somehow?

Thanks

If you allow anonymous posting that is not that same as requiring anonymous posting by all users in a specific category. If you allow anonymous posting, that's exactly what it means; you permit it..

As far as whether anonymous posts are able to be traced to a user profile, I really don't know the answer because I, personally, have never tested this. Interesting thought. I'm surprised no one else has raised this matter before. In your testing can you trace anonymous message to someone's account?

Updated information:

I referred your question to the developers.

Although this is something that you can verify for yourself (because I have never used "anonymous posting" in any forum I have managed) the feature that you see in Kunena was carefully designed to protect the identity of people who post in such a manner.

When people post "anonymously" it means exactly that. There is no record kept of the IP address that was used, no userid, name or other identifying characteristics. Of course, as we all know, the site administrator can relate every piece of server activity to its source by sifting through the server log files but that's not something any ordinary person can access.

I think you'll be safe. You should, however, test this yourself for your own complete peace-of-mind.

Ok will test, and let you know the outcome.

Thanks

It is always better for people to test what might happen instead of asking us to verify, on your behalf, the likelihood of an issue that may be of concern for you. As far as I know, this feature has been tested and no-one, yet, has reported any difficulties with it. I, personally, have no detailed knowledge of these things. Please let us know, as soon as you can, how you go so that we can mark this issue as resolved. Thanks.