Questions tagged [anonymous-visitors]
This tag is for questions about the anonymous users, i.e. users who haven't registered on the Stack Exchange site or browsing it anonymously (not logged in).
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Add an Oxford comma to the Tour shown to accountless people: "Earn reputation when you help others with questions, answers and edits."
Company guidance says to "Use the oxford [sic] comma in sentences." However, people without an account see a list at the end of the tour which lacks an Oxford comma. This should be brought ...
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What's the difference between anonymous and registered feedback on meta sites?
In the 10k Tools section for post feedback, my understanding (maybe wrong) is that "anonymous feedback" is the attempted up/down votes cast by people who haven't unlocked up/down vote ...
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Annoying popup when visiting any Stack Exchange web-site for the first time [duplicate]
Since recently all Stack Exchange web-sites starts with popup:
The popup is shown in incognito-mode every new session.
The popup is kind of useless to show for the new users, because everything is &...
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"currently suspended from suggesting edits" as an anonymous non-user?
I just tried to make a suggested edit on a site (DIY.SE) where I don't have an account. (I frequently do this, because SE has the beautiful feature of allowing anyone to improve posts with grammar/...
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Why can't I select 4 different tags?
Whenever I try to search for 4 different tags in any stack exchange site, I get ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS. Why is this, and is there a way to fix this? Here are some examples on different sites:
https://...
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Don't show the maintenance banner to those who won't be affected by it
I noticed this banner now here on Meta Stack Exchange:
This is good and useful for logged in users, to make them aware they won't be able to post during this time.
However, on many Stack Exchange ...
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The anonymous "Post your answer" button gets squashed
Across all SE sites when I visit a question without being signed in and scroll down to the bottom, there is an option to submit an answer as a guest, but I don't think the button should be wrapped (...
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What is the point to show to anonymous users posts bumped by Community user? How to prevent that bad questions be bumped in low participation sites?
TL;DR: Showing Community-user bumped questions to anonymous users is more likely to cause harm than good, isn't it? If this is correct, what feature-request should be asked and where (per-site-meta or ...
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Trying to access the reputation audit page while logged out shows an incorrect error message of not having the privilege to answer protected questions
One day, I was trying to access my reputation audit page at /reputation, and got an error message saying I don't have the privilege to access the page:
This page requires more privileges
The page you'...
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What does the error message "unknown job being polled!" mean on SEDE?
Error message seen on the first attempt to run this query anonymously:
unknown job being polled!
Screenshot:
The second attempt to run the query was successful.
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Captcha in SEDE sometimes doesn't appear
Captcha in SEDE sometimes doesn't appear:
The "I'm not a robot" challenge is not displayed. Instead, it should be:
Infrequent (<5%). Tested on Chrome+Win 10 as an anon user. I ...
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"Verification expired" when anonymously running an SEDE query
I ran a long SEDE query without logging in. Did the captcha, but after ~30 or ~60 sec got "Verification expired".
Unsure if bug or feature request. Saw it quite often over the past few ...
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Why is the "Show vote summaries" filter not available to anonymous users?
I was just checking the timeline of a post on a site where I don't have an account, and I noticed that the "Show vote summaries" filter option is unavailable.
Here's an example of what the ...
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Why do "bookmark" and "follow" behave differently for logged-out users when both are non-privileged features?
When a user is logged out, there are some elements that they can interact with:
And this is how they behave:
Upvote/downvote: show a "join the community" pop-up with the required reputation....
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Anonymous users get no notification when attempting to follow a post from a review queue
When checking out the review-queue item created by an anonymous edit of mine, I noticed that clicking on the "follow" link does nothing. No console messages, no confirmation, no pop-up. ...
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