Criteria 1: creative commons license selection
Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Justification for the selection of this licence includes allowing others to use and remix any work produced from this blog. This is an important component of being an active member of a sharing economy and allowing further redistribution of works from this blog. However, adding the not for commercial use element is important, ensuring that in the event any income streams were to be generated from content created it would be beneficial to receive this income. The overall selection of this licence enables other users to freely reuse, distribute and remix any content that is created on this blog. In the event that this occurs, source attribution needs to be provided to ensure that credit is applied to any future appearance of any work created by this site.
Criteria 2: Licence publication location
The about page
Home page
Criteria 3: Established blog categories
How to use WordPress categories was accessed to complete this task. The creation of “#CMWP posts” with the slug “land of destruction level” was created to create categories of the Webposts.
Criteria 4: Spam strategy
Overall to achieve a sense that the blog is well managed:
- Delete comments with email address that do look appear legitimate
- Look for details within the users name to identify if the user name looks real.
- Adjust the comments section and ensure the comments are moderated before appearing on the blog.
This article by Kelly Kranz has outlined some helpful ways to deal with negative comments. In summary the overall objective to achieve spam management provides a sense that the blog is well managed. Areas for consideration include:
- Deleting comments with email address that do look appear legitimate
- Looking for details within the users name to identify if the user name looks real.
- Adjust the comments section and ensure the comments are moderated before appearing on the blog.
More specifically within the setting functions, items can be chosen allowing for spam management. This will help ensure that the manager of the site that unwanted spam comments do not appear.
Navigate to components within the settings > discussion settings. Main selections for managing Spam content includes:
- Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
- Automatically closing comment on articles older than 30 days
- Comments to be displayed with newer comments at the top of each
- Emails is sent to me when anyone posts a comment
- Email is sent to me when a comment is held for moderation
- Before comments appear comments must be manually approved
- Comment moderation
In the event spam is received use the blacklisting option to prevent further spamming. Manage this section in the event that there are issues of spamming included on the site. Comment moderation can also be used to match words. The two key strategies to prevent unwanted spam in the long run is disabling comments after 30 days and ensuring all comments are approved and held for moderation before appearing on the site.
“Blacklisting someone is a good way of discouraging people who are submitting spam manually. I encourage you to use it when you can.” Elegant Themes
The overall traffic for this site is virtually non-existent. In the event that this site becomes the target of spam and unwanted comments, this policy will needed be reviewed, these setting prove to be unsuitable for combating unwanted spam.
MJ Wilson 