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my daughter has asked to establish an account with WordPress.com. She is 10. Has anyone experience of the site who could offer a view about its suitability for youngsters please?
ColinJ said:If I was you, I'd set yourself (or some other responsible adult) up as the blog Administrator, and set your daughter up as a Contributor. You can add as many Contributors accounts as you like. As Admin, you are all-powerful. Contributors can make their own blog posts and edit them before publication, but Admin is responsible for publishing them on the blog after checking them. Once you've published the posts, Contributors can't change them so that should be okay.
Set it up so that all comments have to be moderated by you before you let them appear.
I wouldn't want to let your 10 year old have complete control because you know what the internet is like - there's eventually going to be some dodgy character trying something. You need to filter that stuff out so she never gets to see it.
I'd make sure that you only allow links to genuinely safe external material. Somebody could post a link to a picture of a cute puppy and change it to something unsavoury at a later date. It would be better to upload all pictures to the blog so that they can't be changed without your intervention.
I'm thinking in terms of protecting her from accidentally giving away more information than she should - what school she goes to, her address, her age, that kind of thing.Dave5N said:That's right. However she is ten years old and doesn't need Dad to censor her posts. Give her publishing rights. Just don't let the world comment back until they have registered, and if you want, you have approved the comment.
thomas said:I'm pretty sure. Wordpress as in the blogging software it uses definitely is. Just be careful with who you let post comments and things, can get a lot of porn/viagra spam bots taking over.
I use that. It flags up suspected spam and I double-check it - so far it has been right every time. I still moderate all other comments before publishing them though.Hairy Jock said:Just use the Akismet plugin to stop that sort of thing...