How does Word Press define "abuse"?
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I understand, and appreciate, that Word Press honors freedom of speech. Word Press does not provide what it believes constitutes abuse. Can it give some sort of description so that we will know when it is worthwhile to report a blog for abuse?
Additionally, will Word Press ever give blog administrators ability to block a blog from following? Maybe gravatars can be blocked, or blog URLS?? There are bloggers who follow blogs for the purpose of trying to bait others to their blogs which are in direct conflict with the blog they subscribe to, even to slandering the blogger. Disengaging “likes” and the My Community widget is what the abusers want. We should not be forced to dishonor sincere followers because of a few who use those widgets maliciously. How about it Word Press? Is it possible?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I understand, and appreciate, that Word Press honors freedom of speech. Word Press does not provide what it believes constitutes abuse. Can it give some sort of description so that we will know when it is worthwhile to report a blog for abuse?
We Volunteers cannot help with this issue which ought not to be dealt with on a public forum available to all with internet access.
Abuse – Freedom of Speech:
http://en.wordpress.com/freedom-of-speech/
http://en.wordpress.com/abuse/
http://en.wordpress.com/complaints/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/report-blogs/
http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/Note:
Support Policies & Safety – User Guidelines -
We cannot block or delete subscribers from public blogs. Anyone and everyone can access public blogs and that’s indeed what the public designation means. However, please read this about public blogs that become private blogs > Blog Privacy and Subscribers > http://wpcommaven.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/blog-privacy-and-subscribers/
To change blog visibility to Private go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading scroll to Site Visibility and choose option 3
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/You don’t need an upgrade of any kind at all to invite multiple people to contribute to a private blog. See:
adding users http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
user roles http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
Note that you have complete control over everything that’s posted to your blog via comment moderation
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderationFor trolls, you can “blacklist” them at Settings > Discussion toward the bottom of that page. Enter their email address, their username, and if they included it, their website URL. That will automatically send them to moderation so that their comments do not appear on the blog. Do note though that if they are determined, they can use a different email address or username to get around that.
Also, do not put their IP address in the blacklist. IP addresses are no longer unique, and you might end up blocking legitimate visitors. In fact for over a decade only about 30% of us have IPs that trace back to any individual computer. Also, all they would have to do is go to a wi-fi hot spot, or connect via a different ISP and they could get around that.
Additional information:
Our reality is that if the ability to remove or followers existed our time would be squandered on removing unwanted followers because anyone can get a new email address and or a new IP in seconds flat and then they can subscribe again to any public blog they were removed from.If someone has an inappropriate rating for a Gravatar image, please log into to Gravatar and use the “Report Abuse” link on their Gravatar profile bottom right hand corner to let Staff know.
Also note that on this page > Settings > Discussion if you scroll down you will find you can set a Maximum Rating for gravatar display on your blog.
G — Suitable for all audiences
PG — Possibly offensive, usually for audiences 13 and above
R — Intended for adult audiences above 17
X — Even more mature than aboveIf the follower has an inappropriate blog hosted here at WordPress.com, you can also report that to us so we can deal with that: Report Mature or Spam Blogs http://en.support.wordpress.com/report-blogs/
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The ability to zap or spam the spam likes and such would be a nice addition, I have the like button turned off in part because of the problems others in the forum have reported
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Timethief, thanks for your response and I apologize if my question was not clear and thought to be an “issue.”
I also appreciate your recommendations but they are not applicable to my question. Before I opened a Word Press blog in 2012, I read its terms of service, how to report, etc.; all the bells and whistles before I decided to open a blog.
It would be nice if some examples of “abuse” were included in the terms of service so bloggers will understand how it is defined by Word Press. That is all.
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It would be nice if some examples of “abuse” were included in the terms of service so bloggers will understand how it is defined by Word Press. That is all.
Then contact Terms of Service Staff by using
help@wordpress.com
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I am not staff, but I suspect that there is some vague to give the staff leeway to zap a bad blog without the blogger having the ability to come back and quote the letter of the TOS but not the intent
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I’m not Staff either and we both know that this blogger has to contact Staff directly for an answer by using
help@wordpress.com
or
support@wordpress.com
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