What Is This Bordom?
Bordom is a vast collection of funny memes, strange news, and other fascinating things found on the Internet.
It is like a fountain of entertainment contributed by the masses. Bordom attempts to harness this everflowing stream of popular fanfare and present it all in a usable and self-moderating publishing system that is driven solely by the community at large.
Bordom is a Pipeline
Content is submitted to Bordom in the form of a URL or uploaded image. The contributor may optionally prep the item by giving it a title, some tag words, or a description (caption).
Site members continue to prep the item while it is in the submission queue, while others cast their vote of approval or disapproval on it.
Content that is ultimately accepted by the community is made visible on the front page, where it is shown to all Bordom readers and newsletter subscribers.
Bordom is a Democracy
All contributed content to Bordom will be subject to a voting queue stage, where other members of the site will be able to vote on the quality of your submission. You may vote an item UP or DOWN. (+ or -) When your posted items receive enough votes, your item will be either promoted to the front page, or kept private. Items that are voted DOWN are buried and are not visible on the front page.
Items that do not receive enough votes within an alloted period of time are automatically judged by an expiry monster. These items will be subject to being promoted to the front page or buried, depending on the number of positive votes the item has received.
You must be a registered user to view the item submission queue. Items cannot be voted upon until they are moderated (or prepped). This means that at least someone has edited the title, or added a caption, excerpt or added an image to the item. Only then can the item be voted on by others.
Bordom is a Popularity Contest
Items contributed to Bordom are ranked by the number of visits each URL receives. The more your submitted link is visited, the higher it's ranking will be. This ranking is factored in also by the length of time that the item has existed. For example, an item that is a year old with 10 hits will not be ranked as high as a week-old item with only 5 hits. The item rankings directly relate to the contributor's base points.
In addition to item rankings, content contributors also maintain a bonus. Bonus points are awarded for the number of comments, votes, tags, etc given by registered users. These bonus points are added to their hit points to give their total score. See the Stats page for the complete list.
Bordom is a Community Effort
All credit goes to those supporting this project with their content contributions, creative ideas and suggestions. All praise and worship to the #BoR manifesto, and the fellowship within. ell ohh ell.
This website and it's supporting API code was written and is maintained by Jason Hines <jason at greenhell.com>. The BRAX IRC robot was written and is being maintained by Jason Hines as a Rbot module.
Special thanksXOXOXO to Joey O'Doherty and T. Meggs for their continued
support and direction -- and to Corey Wilson for his contributions to the mobile
version of bordom.net and general bug fixes.
See the Terms of Use page if you have any questions or concerns regarding the content found on this website.
If you have a suggestion, or just want to participate in the development of this project, please speak your mind at the Feedback Forum. Bordom is always being improved, and we thrive on hearing from the people who use it.
For developers, there is a Bordom Code project hosted by Google which for tracking bugs.
