Allow admin to lock privacy settings on certain fields
I have been fooling around with this option and reading up on it and don't think I can accomplish what I want. But let me run it by you gurus first.
I pay for our WA site and thus users are guests in my "house" and participate at my will and by my rules. Therefore I do not want people to be able to do things anonymously on the site. For example, I don't want people to be able to turn off public access to their name and therefore their Discussion Forum posts show up as "name is hidden". Sure, I can see their identities when logged in as the admin. But no one else can. There are many reasons why I don't want people to be able to hide on our site. The biggest being that people are much more inclined to be nasty and post things they otherwise would not if they feel they can be anonymous. And sure, I can police that and delete offending posts, but I don't want to take the time to do that for my huge user group.
From what I can tell, even though I can set the default to show all profile information, a user can go in and override that setting, basically hiding whatever info they want or even turning their profile off. Is there a way for me to lock that down so that they cannot change it? Thanks.
wchester
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Released in 5.2
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wchester
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LOL. Exactly! Thanks Dmitry. I was trying to make a point based on what jonpreston says above "For privacy reasons we feel each member should decide which fields are shown in their own profile". I guess what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander. Wild Apricot does not allow people to anonymously post on their forums. A user name and other info is always shown by default. The user cannot hide it. And that is fine...because it's WA's site and if we want to use it then we use it under WA's conditions.
So why not give your paying customer's the same option on their own sites? Allow us to give the users the ability to change these settings or allow us to lock them down. No user should have the assumption of privacy when they use a site that I pay for and provide to them for free. Who does that?
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Dmitry Buterin commented
AFAIK There is no way to hide these fields for a specific user.
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wchester
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Is there a way for me to hide my "user name", "date joined" and "# of posts" that appears to the left of my posts in the Wild Apricot forums?
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anonymous_206.223.175.10
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For privacy reasons we feel each member should decide which fields are shown in their own profile so it is not possible to prevent members from changing the profile access settings.
