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Non-logged-in visitors again: mystery solved
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I've asked a couple of questions on this subject before, but I haven't received a reply from ProZ until now. I was particularly interested in why non-logged-in visitors never award points or respond to comments, and why so many appear to have exactly 30 open questions.

This is what the staff member told me:


'A "non-logged-in visitor" refers to someone using the site without logging in to a ProZ account.

'ProZ allows visitors to interact without an ac... See more
I've asked a couple of questions on this subject before, but I haven't received a reply from ProZ until now. I was particularly interested in why non-logged-in visitors never award points or respond to comments, and why so many appear to have exactly 30 open questions.

This is what the staff member told me:


'A "non-logged-in visitor" refers to someone using the site without logging in to a ProZ account.

'ProZ allows visitors to interact without an account in two ways: they can ask KudoZ questions, and they can send profile messages to those users who have set their profile to accept messages from visitors without an account.

'Visitors can ask KudoZ questions without being a registered user, but they have some limits, including the fact that they can only post 5 questions per day.

'The reason why non-logged-in visitors show as having 30 open questions is actually because of a small flaw in our implementation, which we plan to address when we modernize KudoZ for the new site. This does not reflect the actual number of open questions from a given visitor.

'Non-logged-in visitors can respond to answers or award points with a question-specific password that ProZ sends them via email to give them access to their posted question but, simply put, they often forget.

'That is why, when a question posted by a visitor has been open for a while, the system starts trying to close it automatically based on the amount of "agrees" that the answers have, using the First Validated Answer system.' ▲ Collapse


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@Philgoddard Sep 28, 2024

That's interesting. I used to ask myself how non-logged-in visitors can ask questions, why they don't usually award point and don't close their questions. You have answered all these questions now. Thanks for sharing.

But, I'm just surprised why they prefer being a non-logged-in visitors instead of using Proz in the regular way. It's a bit weird!

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