Question Anonymous posting by a non member

Our forum is set up in this way, guests can see certain categories but cannot post, non-members can see certain categories and post, members can see all categories and can post.

A post has been put up by someone called anonymous as their username and a rank of visitor. We don't have a visitor rank first of all and I cannot see one in kunena. I have checked the IP address and comes back as a reported spammer.

How is this possible and what can we do to stop it. I have blocked the IP address but concerned that someone has posted without the necessary permissions or am I missing something here, help would be very much appreciated.

As you know the time of the post and also the ip-adress of the poster you can look in access logs how this post was accomplished.

derek hendry wrote: Our forum is set up in this way, guests can see certain categories but cannot post, non-members can see certain categories and post

Why do not you ban visitors from writing?
If you set that only registered users are allowed to write, this can not happen.

This is what we had done

The forum is set up so that only registered members can write posts.

Guests cannot write a post, we dont have a rank of visitor, where has this come from ?

If i can explain further what non members are

We wanted to allow would be joiners of the club a way to ask questions, So we have two levels

non member
member

Both have to register in order to post, hope this clarifies

Guests and visitors should not be able to post, yet this person has

I do not know if I can help completely, but is there a link to the page where you can take a look?

here is a link to the page, you can see that guests can read this section but not post on it, also as i say i dont know where visitor rank has come from, we dont have a rank called that.

www.gwocgb.co.uk/index.php/forum/welcome...parts-for-sale#22486