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When I'm signed in, I see a set of post action links such as the following (this is from a question): Permalink | History | Suggest edit | Close | Delete | Flag The "Suggest edit" changes to ...
#2: Post edited
by
Monica Cellio
·
2022-01-11T13:55:17Z (almost 3 years ago)
This was fixed sometime since this question was asked but I don't know when. Just tested with a new user.
#1: Initial revision
by
Canina
·
2020-07-01T15:53:31Z (over 4 years ago)
When I'm signed in, I see a set of post action links such as the following (this is from a question): > Permalink | History | Suggest edit | Close | Delete | Flag The "Suggest edit" changes to "Edit" if I am able to edit immediately. However, when I'm *not* signed in, the corresponding set of links is: > Permalink | History | Close | Delete | Flag I'm actually afraid to try them out, but as a user that's not signed in, I really don't think I should be able to close or delete a question, and one can argue whether or not I should be able to flag it. All this to **suggest that each action link should only be shown if I have sufficient privileges to use it on the post in question.** Absent other changes to the post in question in the interim, I shouldn't, as a user, see an action link that ultimately results in being told some variation of "permission denied". That's just bad UX. In the particular case of questions visited by a user who is not signed in, I suspect that the set of action links shown should be permalink and history; *possibly* also flag (if flagging as a not-signed-in user is allowed, which I do not intend for this Q&A to discuss). Certainly not close and delete. <small>To be honest, I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature-request.</small>