This is a summary of some of the features available in SPIKA's UGC platform.
| Feature | Notes |
|---|---|
User Activities (UGC) | |
| Authentication | Can control access rights to each piece of UGC. Some content may be visible to anonymous visitors. |
| User profiles | Support for extended profiles with multiple images, favourite urls etc. It's possible to control privacy settings for each piece of content. |
| Friends | Browse people, Invite and manage friends, add to groups and control access. |
| Albums | Upload photos and arrange into albums to share with friends. Possible to control disk quota. |
| Blogging | All the standard features. |
| Forums | Start new topics and threads, subscribe to threads etc. |
| Stories | Publish your own stories and add images etc, for others to view, comment on or respond to. |
| Commenting | Everything can be commented on – other people, their content, editorial content and web pages. |
| Rating | Stars, thumbs up/down, Like it, or even report as abusive. |
| File handling | Automatic re-scaling of uploaded images, even support for uploading zip files containing multiple images. |
| Tag clouds | Adding your own tag words – feeds into the search engine for easy access and helps finding relating content. |
| Searching / Browsing | Everything is searchable based on author, text content as well as tag words. The results are based on access rights. |
| Editing existing UGC | Submitted content can be edited, which may result in re-moderation. |
| Association | All user content can be linked to other pieces of content, editorial as well as user generated, so that it can be displayed as related content. |
Moderation | |
| Moderation Modes | Supports all modes such as Auto-blocking, Pre-moderation, post-moderation, Abusive only. Different moderation modes can apply based on content type, customer history, time of day etc. |
| Language Filtering | Automatic rejecting of inappropriate words or expressions. |
| Content type based moderation | Possible to configure moderation of for example only certain forums, only attached images, etc. |
| Member based moderation | The system can automatically flag members for more or less trustworthy based on past activities and entered content. |
| Automatic Intelligence | The moderation system learns from moderators actions and constantly become better at judging what's considered offensive language. |
| Moderation Staff allocation | Moderation rules can automatically change over the day to for example reduce the need for weekend or night shifts. |
