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anonymous users can't like/react to a page

Lucien Kress

I want anonymous users to be able to like/react to a page. Currently, if an anonymous user hovers on the like button, it shows "loading" but never becomes clickable. This behavior in both Chrome and Firefox. The Likes/Reactions setting is enabled, and logged-in users can like pages as expected. Any advice?

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Craig Nodwell_7eve9b

Hi @Lucien Kress welcome to the community. I may be off here but my understanding is liking a page requires write access. Anonymous users do not have write access.

Lucien Kress

Interesting. Do you have a reference for that? I've confirmed that anonymous users can comment on a page, and I would imagine likes/reactions would require the same level of access.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

There's no way to do this without making like/react/vote utterly useless.

Imagine this really simple case:

Alice looks at a page, logs in, and clicks like.
- You record Alice liked the page
Bob looks at a page, and clicks like.
- You don't know who Bob is because they are anonymous, but heck, yes, record that Anonymous liked the page
Charlie looks at a page, and clicks like.
- Um. Charlie is anonymous, and the anonymous account has already liked it
- Your choices for Charlie's "like" are:
- Ignore it because anonymous already liked it. The like is useless.
- Record it because it was a different time. What's to stop Charlie now liking it another 50,000 times before you notice Charlie is a spam-bot or troll?

Anonymous voting can't work.

Lucien Kress

I suppose it depends on what you're using likes for. Is voting the only use case?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Nope, there are plenty of other use cases, but the basic logic is still that if you want any form of rating or voting to be useful and not abused, you need to be able to count votes by some unique identifier.

This is something which you can not get from an anonymous source.

Lucien Kress

Understood. My use case is different, so I'm still looking for technical answer.

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