Blog with user-generated content?

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  spiritledangel · Member · Feb 6, 2010 at 1:44 pm

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  I want to start a blog where readers generate the content (comments and/or pictures), kind of like http://myparentswereawesome.tumblr.com or http://www.peopleofwalmart.com. Can I do that with wordpress.com? If so, how?

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  hanni · Member · Feb 6, 2010 at 9:10 pm

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  Not easily, you’d need to get users to send you content either via email or through a contact form ( http://support.wordpress.com/contact-form/ ) but you’d need to post it yourself.

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  spiritledangel · Member · Feb 8, 2010 at 3:55 am

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  Well that’s ok I guess because I would want to approve any postings before they were added anyway. Thanks for the tip!

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  spiritledangel · Member · Feb 8, 2010 at 4:01 am

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  One more question…can a user submit an attachment with the contact form? I looked at the contact form link you sent & it doesn’t appear that they can?

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  tellyworth · Staff · Feb 8, 2010 at 5:30 am

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  No, not with the contact form. One simple way would be to create a Gmail account just for receiving submissions, and put the email address in your sidebar. You’ll get spam, so tell people to put a particular wording in the subject line and use Gmail filtering to find them.