[ecidadania-dev] Re: Ability to invite friends without logging in: a bug or intended feature
- From: Mohamed Ashraf <mohamed.ashraf.213@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ecidadania-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:12:21 +0200
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Arvind S Raj <sraj.arvind@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Oscar Carballal Prego <
> oscar.carballal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:43:55 +0530, Arvind S Raj <sraj.arvind@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Hey everyone,
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Oscar Carballal Prego <
>> > oscar.carballal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> It's an intended feature, but if you think it's not ok to have it
>> please
>> >> explain why :)
>> >>
>> >
>> > It could be abused-someone could invite random people to join the site
>> and
>> > we won't be able to determine who invited whom. Also, the person invited
>> > wouldn't know who invited him-I think people would like to know who
>> invited
>> > them to join; at least I would like to know :).
>>
>> You have a good point. We can't allow anonymous users to send invitations
>> without any restriction. Let's move the email invitations to a private
>> zone.
>>
>
> Okay then. I've reported a ticket(#192) and created a pull request that
> fixes the issue too.
>
> I would like to add one thing that while email invitations should be only
for logged in users however sharing via facebook and twitter and other
social media sites shouldn't because the invitees already know who the
inviter is and I shouldn't expect everyone who wants to share the website
wants to use it or has a reason to. what do you think?
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