 Kuro5hin (K5) (pronounced "corrosion") is a community discussion website (sometimes known as an example of Commons-based peer production) focused on technology and culture. The site runs on the Scoop collaborative system, originally developed for Kuro5hin and licensed under the GPL. Its motto is "Technology and Culture, from the Trenches." The site is notable for being almost entirely community driven. Image File history File links Kuro5hin_logo. ...
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Commons-based peer production is a term coined by professor Yochai Benkler to describe a new model of economic production, different from both markets and firms, in which the creative energy of large numbers of people gets coordinated (usually with the aid of the internet) into large, meaningful projects, largely...
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The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning to cultivate, generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ...
Scoop is a content management system originally developed by Rusty Foster. ...
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Overview All content is generated by and selected by the users—with the exception of site news, which is written by the editors (chiefly Rusty Foster, the site's founder). Registered users can submit stories to the Submissions Queue. In the queue, users vote +1 FP (front page), +1, -1 or 0 (for an abstention). If the story reaches a predetermined threshold score, it is posted either to the front page or to the relevant section, depending on the proportion of +1FP votes. If it fails to make the threshold, it is dropped. Rusty Foster is the founder of Kuro5hin. ...
One feature of the story queue is Edit Mode, which means that a story is protected from voting for a period of time, during which the author can make changes. Comments can be made on the story during this time, and to aid the author, they are distinguished as being Editorial or Topical comments.
A further section known as the Diaries allows unmoderated posting by any user. Diary entries are essentially weblog entries, though their aggregation of posts by many users gives a more collective atmosphere. Some diaries are written by trolls, a practice which has caused many diary-writers ("diarists") to leave Kuro5hin. A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ...
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History Rusty Foster named Kuro5hin - which is, as noted, pronounced corrosion - as a pun on his first name. The number 5 was inspired by a character called Da5id in Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash. Dylan Griffiths (Inoshiro) was second in command as site administrator for some time, but more recently has been largely absent from the community. Additionally, there are a number of other people with powers of story editing (although not comment editing) and site administration. A blacksmith removing rust with sand prior to welding Rust damage in automobiles can create hidden dangers. ...
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Da5id (pronounced as David, 5 represents the V as in Roman numerals) is a fictional character in Snow Crash, a novel by Neal Stephenson. ...
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1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
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The community also holds a Wiki for Kuro5hin related material called Ko4ting (pronounced "coating" or "cavorting"). It houses information about the community, including a Greatest Stories Hall of Fame, Welcome/Introduction Guide, History of Kuro5hin, and a story directory. A wiki (IPA: <WICK-ee> or <WEE-kee>[1]) is a type of website that allows visitors to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration. ...
Ko4ting (pronounced coating or cavorting) is a wiki-based meta website for Kuro5hin that includes site guides, a hall of fame of K5 gems, and a history of Kuro5hin. ...
In June 2002 Rusty suggested that he might be forced to sell or shut down Kuro5hin due to lack of funds, and he solicited donations to support the site.[1] In response, readers gave more than $37,000 in donations and other support in less than a week.[2] Shortly thereafter Rusty announced plans to create a non-profit organization known as the Collaborative Media Foundation (CMF) to manage K5.[3] Since then, some users have been critical of a perceived lack of active management and functional improvements to the site. As of 2006, the CMF is not legally incorporated.
The style and content of what is in part a magazine site has ebbed and flowed over time, such as an increase in Culture and politics articles. In early 2003 a fiction section was added [4].
In the second half of 2003 a large portion of the diarists abandoned Kuro5hin and started posting diaries on Hulver's site (commonly referred to as "HuSi"). Around the same time complaints about trolls increased. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A Do not feed the troll image (dont encourage trolls by reacting to them) Internet Troll In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude, repetitive or offensive messages designed intentionally to annoy and antagonize...
On March 25, 2004, Rusty closed off new user accounts because of posting of an image he and others found offensive, which photoshopped his wife's face onto a pornographic image. He later announced he was going to implement new user sponsorship [5]. Many users believed that it would be the beginning of the end of Kuro5hin [6] [7] and some believed the whole scheme wouldn't work at all. [8] On July 13, Rusty reopened new user accounts and informed the community that he was abandoning the idea of user sponsorship. [9] March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Great Tit A photoshopped image of a pair of great tits created from the above image A photoshopped image created from a portrait of Leo Tolstoy and an illustration of the Battle of Bannockburn Photoshopping is the art and practice of digitally editing pictures with image editing software. ...
Pornography (from Greek πορνογραφια pornographia — literally writing about or drawings of harlots) is the representation of the human body or human sexual behaviour with the goal of sexual arousal, similar to, but (according to some) distinct from, erotica. ...
Insert non-formatted text here July 13 is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. ...
On July 23, 2004, Rusty announced that he was going to alter the way editors modify peoples' diaries to make it more visible to the K5 community [10]. This was done in response to the way that an unknown editor modified circletimessquare's diary [11]. There was confusion over whether the diary was a troll, and a subsequent diary by curien underscored this further [12] [13]. As of June 22, 2005, almost one year later, these changes to editor powers have still not been implemented. July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
On June 14, 2006, an XSS vulnerability was used to compromise cookies belonging to administrators. This access was then used to embed an Iframe redirect to Last Measure into every page on the site. The site existed in this state for about 15 minutes before being taken down entirely. After approximately 2 hours of downtime, the site was restored to its normal state. June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications which can be used by an attacker to compromise the same origin policy of client-side scripting languages. ...
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Last Measure is a shock site created by members of the Internet trolling group Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA). ...
Etiquette New users to Kuro5hin often find there are several unwritten rules they are expected to follow. Many existing users say that new users should post some diaries and comments to the site before submitting a story. Users who have no comments and no diaries and who submit a story are often called nullos, originally given after an article posted by McBain in 2003 [14].
See also - Advogato
- Slashdot, often referred in Kuro5hin as "the other site". Many users valued the community-based management of the front page in Kuro5hin over the Slashdot system of professional editors.
- Digg
- reddit
Advogato is an online community site dedicated to free software development, created by Raph Levien. ...
Slashdot (often abbreviated to /.) is a popular technology-related website/Forum updated many times daily, with articles that are often short summaries of stories on other websites, links to those stories, and provisions for readers to comment on each story. ...
Digg is a website with an emphasis on technology and science news. ...
reddit is a web site that seeks to provide a list of what is new and interesting online. ...
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