Question Thank You not fully respecting permissions

I understand your argument but this argument misses the point. Whether or not one way of doing it is a better value for more users to the exclusion of the minority, is not the argument.

You are assuming that there is a decision to accept one preference or another based upon a value judgement. The point however is that by default the simplest logic here is read/write and as a Joomla component that it falls under the Joomla style usergroup/view level schema. So naturally "Thank You" is a write function. This is not debatable or to be argued. It just is. To state that or to accept that, is not to accept that you are right or wrong. It is accepting what is patently true. A fact.

If the architect of Kunena decides that this line should be broken, that is an actual value based decision to break from the natural logic. This is before we even get to the argument of whether or not it is a good choice. The decision is not "to extend" or not, because for one thing that assumes that there was a natural choice to be made. There was not because it clearly is a write function. So it is either a bug (or could even be considered a minor exploit) that would fall under the larger category of permissions schema or a conscious, value based decision (right or wrong). The decision is to break from the natural logic and way things are done in Joomla as well as generally accepted principles (GAP) ostensibly at least by your argument, to suit a greater number of users for a particular purpose or purposes.

I hope that is clear. If your answer is that you like your choice better then so be it. I am just bringing it to your attention and don't want to waste anyone's time further.

Thank you.