System for managing community provided in information processing system, and method thereof

Abstract

Provided is a system which manages a user community provided in an information processing system, in which user community information provided by a user is made available to another user for reference. The system includes a storage section which stores an audit policy defining contents of information to be permitted to be registered in each of a plurality of communities, by associating the audit policy with each of the communities; a detection section which detects a community to which information is provided in response to provision of the information by a user; and a registration control section which inhibits registration of information, provided by a user, in a detected user community on condition that the information violates an audit policy corresponding to the user community.

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       2 . A method of managing a user community provided in an information processing system, in which information provided by a user is made available to another user for reference, the method comprising:
 a step of storing an audit policy defining contents of information to be permitted to be registered in the user community and an individual policy defining contents of information to be permitted to be registered in the user community, for each user, in association with each of a plurality of user communities, by the information processing system;   a step of detecting the user community to which information is provided, in response to a provision of the information by the user, by the information processing system;   a step of inhibiting registration of the information, provided by the used, in the user community on condition that the information violates the audit policy corresponding to detected user community; and   a step of determining, when the information provided by a first user includes a hyperlink to a different piece of information, whether the different piece of information violates the individual policy corresponding to the first user in response to selection of the hyperlink by a second user, and inhibiting the browsing of the different piece of information by the second user on condition that the information violates the individual policy.