made that stuff work

app/models/inbox.rb

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ class Inbox < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :user
   belongs_to :question
 
+  before_create do
+    raise "User does not want to receive anonymous questions" if self.question.author_is_anonymous and !self.user.privacy_allow_anonymous_questions?
+  end
+
   def answer(answer_content, user)
     answer = user.answer(self.question, answer_content)
     self.destroy

app/models/question.rb

@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@ class Question < ActiveRecord::Base
 
   validates :content, length: { maximum: 255 }
 
-  before_create do
-    raise "User does not want to receive anonymous questions" if self.author_is_anonymous and !self.user.privacy_allow_anonymous_questions?
-  end
-
   before_destroy do
     user.decrement! :asked_count unless self.author_is_anonymous
   end

app/views/shared/_questionbox.html.haml

@@ -6,21 +6,26 @@
       - else
         = @user.motivation_header
   .panel-body
+    - if user_signed_in? or @user.privacy_allow_anonymous_questions?
       #question-box
         .row
           .col-xs-12
             %textarea.form-control{:name => "qb-question", :placeholder => "Type your question here…"}
         .row{:style => "padding-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;"}
           .col-xs-6
-          - if user_signed_in? # and @user.allow_anonymous
+            - if user_signed_in?
+              - if @user.privacy_allow_anonymous_questions?
                 %input{:name => "qb-anonymous", :type => "checkbox"}/
                 Hide your name
                 %br/
+              - else
+                %input{:name => "qb-anonymous", :type => "hidden", :value => "false"}/
           .col-xs-6
             %p.pull-right
               %input{name: 'qb-to', type: 'hidden', :value => @user.id}/
               %button.btn.btn-primary{name: 'qb-ask', :type => "button", data: {loading_text: 'Asking...', promote: user_signed_in? ? "false" : "true" }} Ask
     - unless user_signed_in?
+      - if @user.privacy_allow_anonymous_questions?
         #question-box-promote.row{:style => "display: none;"}
           .row
             .col-xs-12.text-center
@@ -40,7 +45,8 @@
                 = APP_CONFIG['site_name']
                 today!  You'll be able to follow and ask people you know and a lot more.
             .col-sm-1
-/     %p
-/       This user does not want to get asked by strangers.  Why don't you
-/       = succeed "?" do
-/         %a{:href => "{{ url_for('register') }}"} sign up
+      - else
+        %p
+          This user does not want to get asked by strangers.  Why don't you
+          = succeed "?" do
+            %a{:href => "{{ url_for('register') }}"} sign up