Can Guests vote in Polls?

by Ranna156 November 6th 2012, 4:32 am

Hi I have recently updated the settings on a forum on http://www.chatouat.com/ to allow guests to vote but it doesn't appear that they can. You can see a poll along the side and also if you go into this forum specifically http://www.chatouat.com/f7-storybrooke-maine-chat any poll a guest should be allowed to vote based on the settings I chose. However when I went to test it I couldn't vote as a guest. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

by **SLGray** November 6th 2012, 5:02 am

How did you update the forum to allow guests to vote?

by Ranna156 November 7th 2012, 4:14 am

In the AP under General I found the forum and updated the permissions to allow guests to vote.

by **SLGray** November 7th 2012, 4:34 am

Have you tried creating a new poll and seeing if it lets you vote has a guest?

by Ranna156 November 7th 2012, 5:40 pm

yes and nope it doesn't. I also started a topic as a guest and added a poll...but the poll never showed up when added as a guest.

by kirk November 7th 2012, 6:28 pm

Ranna156 wrote:yes and nope it doesn't. I also started a topic as a guest and added a poll...but the poll never showed up when added as a guest.

Are you sure the permissions is set on the forum you are posting the poll on?

Other then that i will have to test it on one of my test forums, i cant recall me ever allowing guest to vote?

by **SLGray** November 7th 2012, 7:07 pm

Please post a screenshot of the permission page (administration panel) for the forum that has this option.

by kirk November 7th 2012, 7:26 pm

slg wrote:Please post a screenshot of the permission page (administration panel) for the forum that has this option.

Yeah the options are there. it threw me for a loop for a min too

All of these following permissions should be set to allow guest to post/vote

View the forum,Read the topics,Reply to a message,Vote,Open a topic and Create a poll

You should also have this set.

Admin panel>user and groups>user options

scroll down to

Allow guest to vote = YES and save

Info added

However with all of this set on my test forum.
i can post and create a poll as a guest. but only the post is showing and not the poll.
Odd? even when i log in as admin, the guest poll is not showing only the post???

So set everything like i have above and let me know how you make out with it.

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by Ranna156 November 8th 2012, 3:55 am

THANK YOU!

It was the users options that was causing the problem because it was checked to no!

Even with all of those set the poll that a guest creates doesn't actually get created...but that is ok...i don't really want them creating polls...they can become a member if they want to do that!

I also noticed that it appears that the guest gets one vote...so if I am a member i can do two votes at most on the same IP address I presume...This is REALLY NICE, since that was the main reason I didn't want to allow guests to vote to begin with...afraid it would skew the polls!