User was able to post before membership approval

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chilternhills
Date: 19 Jun 2014 20:19
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A user applied for membership of my site, but before I could approve him he was able to post on my site. The admin system now doesn't allow me to approve him.

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User was able to post before membership approval

chilternhills 19 Jun 2014 20:19

I received an application from user Peter Sheldon-Battle for the Save Our Service site (http://saveourservice.wikidot.com/). I can see his application listed in the Admin Panel under Current Member Applications, but I cannot approve his application. When I click the 'accept' button the 'Membership application - accept' dialog pops up but the whole page (everything) is greyed out. I cannot enter anything in the 'Reason' text box, neither can I click the 'Send decision' button.

What is very odd is that this user was able to post a comment on a blog post on the Save Our Service site (here http://saveourservice.wikidot.com/blog:5) BEFORE I APPROVED the application. Why was he able to do this? In the Admin Panel under Members List Peter Sheldon-Battle is NOT listed. Could it explain why I cannot now approve the application using the usual means in the Admin Panel? I have checked site permissions and confirmed that you have to be a site member to edit blog posts.

To make it clear, I have no issue with this member application. I would gladly approve it. His comment on the blog post was entirely correct and appropriate.

What should I do now?

Thanks for your advice.

chilternhills

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leiger 20 Jun 2014 05:21

For the technical problems you are having with accepting that user's application, I'm not sure what to suggest. Could you perhaps post a screenshot, to demonstrate the "whole page (everything) is greyed out" symptoms that you are experiencing? And a list of steps to reproduce the problem.

As for anonymous / non-member users being able to comment on your blog… I was also able to comment on that blog post: http://saveourservice.wikidot.com/blog:5

You most likely have your permissions set to allow anyone to comment, even without being a member. Requiring approval to become a member doesn't have any impact on what permissions you have set for the site, especially if you've set it to allow anyone to comment.

Page Permissions

Look at your site manager, under Security > Permissions. Ensure that you are not giving access to 'anonymous' or 'registered' users (if you only want approved members to create/edit pages).

Forum Permissions

Look at your site manager, under Forum > Permissions. Ensure that you are not giving access to 'Anonymous' or 'Registered at Wikidot.com' users (if you want to prevent people from commenting on your blog until they've been approved first).

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Helmut_pdorf 20 Jun 2014 05:42

I think, this is more a problem with the cockies on the applicatgion process and has nothimg to do with the fact that this wikidot user has posted before.
( there were some strange glitches with such winidows since the new bootstrap layout of wikidot was implemented.)

Can you try this on different browsers?
I would like to test this by applying on your site for memberhship now!

We will see if you are able to approve it.
Regards
Helmut

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Helmut_pdorf 20 Jun 2014 10:49

OK, YOu were able to accept my application.

The questin is now: is this a bug?

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chilternhills 20 Jun 2014 11:04

The membership approval process is working correctly this morning. It certainly wasn't last night. I processed Helmut's and Peter's applications OK this morning. So that remains a mystery.

As for posting before membership approval, I reviewed permissions and believe all were as I wanted them. But I may move the join page out of the system category and then lock down system pages.

Thanks for all your feedback. This issue can be dropped for now. I think the root of it is a permissions issue that I hadn't spotted.

Regards,

chilternhills

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Helmut_pdorf 20 Jun 2014 11:14

We had FF Rel 3.0 as new update for Firefox the last day..

I think, there were some different cookie-handling ( with deletion of the old one if you reset Firefox completely..

Could be this was the reason ( a combination of new browser/system update in the background) , if today all is working correct.

Till now I do not believe that it was something connected with the permission setup… a new membership application and their acknowledgment have nothing to do with permissions of a post/comment.
But who am I to know such issues.. :)

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chilternhills 20 Jun 2014 11:50

Yes, Helmut, I think you are on to something here. Last night I was using my PC with Windows 8.1 and Firefox and, as you say, Firefox v.30 was installed automatically. The membership approval process wasn't working. This morning I was using my iPad with Safari and everything seems normal with the membership approval process. It could be a Firefox cookie handling issue. Maybe this should be referred back to Wikidot developers for investigation.

As regards permissions, I used the option to inherit permissions from _default for the blog settings. I have unclicked that option and specifically set blog permissions. In fact I have removed the inherit permissions from default throughout. The default permissions seemed OK though.

Anton (chilternhills)

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