-
- On most social news websites, users may submit positive or negative votes
- Members help to police the communities by flagging submissions that contain spam or inappropriate content
- Companies such as Subvert and Profit pay people to vote for social news storiesGigaom: Big Social News Sites Need to Outsmart the Subverters (January 10, 2008)
- In 2008, 4.5 million unique visitors came to Reddit each monthars technicha: Reddit social news site goes transparent, open source (June 18, 2007)
- Users may receive points for consistently submitting top stories
-
-
Social news websites allow users to post links to news stories and other media such as photographs and videos on the site. Users have the option of commenting on or voting for the submitted stories. The submissions that get the most votes, views and/or comments are featured at top of the site or page, while those that receive less votes or mostly negative votes are filtered out.
-
-
Social News Questions
Why does socialism not work as well as capitalism? 4 AnswersSocialism is based on the state controlling large industry while allowing small businesses the opportunity to exist and succeed. In theory it sounds wonderful:... read more
Best sources for odd/idiotic/WTF news? 9 AnswersDigg is one of my favorites at http://digg.com/offbeat. Some are a little silly and pointless but I think they'd all be considered "odd", and they come from a... read more
What is "social bookmarking?" 2 AnswersSocial bookmarking is a way to share your research and good finds with others and to find what others have dug around for. You organize your bookmarks with tag... read more
Which social network has a larger number of followers: facebook or myspace? 2 AnswersFacebook has more followers and is still growing. Recently it surpassed 200 million users. Myspace has 130 million. Difference in demographics: 70% of Facebook ... read more



