in reply to New Feature: Claim anonymously posted nodes

I plead guilty on unintentionally posting anonymously because of clearing cookies between reviewing a long post. And gods always helped when I posted a comment under it to declare ownership (or rather avoid the cowardness taint). Apologies and thank you.

In my situation it would be helpful to show me an alert when pressing the "post" button that I am currently anonymous and, as a result, the post will be anonymously posted. I would then log in to another window, get the cookie and retry posting. That check could also be made between "preview your post" stages. I guess there are other mistakes leading to anonymous posts though.

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Re^2: New Feature: Claim anonymously posted nodes
by jdporter (Paladin) on Jan 03, 2025 at 15:26 UTC
    show me an alert when pressing the "post" button that I am currently anonymous

    Currently, when you click the 'Preview' button, if you aren't logged in, the next page shows:

    You aren't logged in.

    If you're not seing that.... that's on you, I guess. :-)

    But yeah, we could probably put that in more places, such as in the initial 'Comment on' page. But we don't want to make it too obnoxious for those who are intentially posting anonymously.

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      If you're not seing that.... that's on you, I guess. :-)

      gosh i never seen this sign, or rather i never registered it. sorry

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        I haven't done this unintentionally ever again after changing the theme when logged in. Worked for over a dozen years now.

        Probably a better way to solve this "globally" is to change the text of the submit button to something like "create anonymously" or displaying the warning right there.

        But obnoxious is in the eye of the beholder...

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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