A social news website features user-posted stories that are ranked based on popularity. Users can comment on these posts, and these comments may also be ranked. Since their emergence with the birth of web 2.0, these sites are used to link many types of information including news, humor, support, and discussion. Social news relies on crowd sourcing to shape focus in a bottom-up fashion, forming a type of collective intelligence. Social news sites facilitate democratic participation on the web.[c
Websites
Slashdot
Slashdot, started in 1997, was one of the first social news websites. It focuses mainly on science and technology related news. Users can submit stories, and the editors pick out the best stories each day for the front page. Users can then post comments on the stories.[1] The influx of web traffic that resulted from Slashdot linking to websites led to the effect being coined as the Slashdot effect.
Fark
Fark was started in 1997, and featured news of any topic. On Fark, users can submit articles to the administrators of the site. Each day, these administrators pick out 50 articles to display on the front page.[2]
Delicious
Delicious, started in September 2003, is a social news website which allows users to create a profile, and then use that profile to create "stacks". Stacks are what delicious.com refers to as a "playlist to the Internet". Essentially, users find links to different webpages or media that relate to a common theme or topic. Stacks must have at least three links in order to become a published work. Featured articles are chosen by the publishers of the website and showcased on the homepage of delicious. As of December 2011, delicious.com includes subcategories in which each stack may be categorized. [3]
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