How can I let users ask questions anonymously?

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How can I let users ask questions anonymously?

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Abraham Christian Arizechukwu 30 Posted October 21, 2017

Somebody asked something like this in 2015. But up till now it has not been implemented. It’s better sometimes for users to ask anonymous questions especially ones they might feel embarrassed asking publicly.

Please if you guys can look into it. Thank you for your contribution so far.

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Anonymous · Answer 1 · 2017-11-17T14:42:51+00:00

Hi Kumar, thanks for your quick response.
Maybe I haven’t clear enough on elaborate the anonymous ask. This is the ideal scenario for anonymous ask :
1. Only logged user could ask anonymous (Non-user isn’t allowed)
2. It’s an optional field

The current version on my Anspress is that when I set at Anspress->Option->UAC to Anyone, include anonymous.

At my frontend ask forms this will happen :
1. For non-user, they could ask the questions
2. For logged-in user, they could also ask the questions. But there are NO anonymous option (or in Anspress represent with Enter your name to display field)

Basically is just like quora anonymous ask feature.
Is it any solutions for this or is it maybe my current themes still not supported yet ?

Hello,
This feature is pending for a long time in the AnsPress as I can see this request was posted way back in 2014. Not sure why this feature was never added to AnsPress but will discuss this with @nerdaryan.

Anonymous · Answer 2 · 2017-11-15T06:56:30+00:00

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bluebeach2010 48 Posted November 14, 2017 1 Comment

Yeah, I’m definitely in with it. A checkbox for logged in user to be able to ask question anonymously would be a very useful feature. Hope it’ll be done soon.

Anonymous commented on answer November 15, 2017

Kumar commented November 15, 2017

Its already there. Just select “anyone (including anonymous)” value for question posting permission in AnsPress ->options -> UAC

Rahul Aryan · Answer 3 · 2017-10-22T02:46:20+00:00

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Rahul Aryan 30.96K Posted October 21, 2017 7 Comments

Hello,

This feature is available in AnsPress since version 2.x and now it improved more in 4.1.0-beta release.

Rahul Aryan commented on answer November 29, 2017

Abraham Christian Arizechukwu commented October 21, 2017

How can admin activate this feature?

Abraham Christian Arizechukwu commented October 21, 2017

i am using it with buddypress users cant see “ask as annonymous” before posting a question. The only option is “only visible to admin and moderator”.

Rahul Aryan commented October 22, 2017

Oh sorry I misunderstood your question. This feature is still not available.

awijasa commented November 28, 2017

Enabling a logged in user to ask or answer anonymously would be a very cool feature!

Rahul Aryan commented November 29, 2017

Its already there. Please check anspress UAC options.

awijasa commented November 29, 2017

Hello Rahul,

I don’t think a logged-in user is able to mark him/herself anonymous yet. I tried setting the AnsPress UAC options to enable anonymous, but what these options allow are contributions by non-users.

Thanks,

Adrian

Rahul Aryan commented November 29, 2017

My bad, I always get this question wrong. It can be added now as AnsPress form API is more powerful and customizable then earlier.

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