Fark.com

Fark.com is a community website created by Drew Curtis allowing users to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. Most links are submitted by Fark readers, which are then approved for posting on the main page by admins. Fark is one of the most widely read community sites of its type on the internet.

Tags

The signature of Fark has always been the "tags" given to stories by submitters - "Stupid", "Interesting", "Asinine", "Scary", "Hero", "Dumbass", "Unlikely", "PSA (public service announcement)", "Misc", and "Obvious" - which are displayed prominently alongside often witty headlines and a link to a forum to discuss that specific article. Articles discussing Wil Wheaton, a prominent member of the Fark community, are given the "Wheaton" tag. Articles discussing Christoper Walken are given the "Walken" tag, though Christoper Walken has never participated on Fark. Tags that say "Advice" or "Survey" are used for discussion threads where users are asked to comment. Tags that say "Photoshop", "Audioedit" or "Videoedit" are used for threads where digital content is edited for a humorous or artistic effect. Tags that say "Boobies" or "Weeners" are used to post adult content. Finally, the "Newsflash" tag is used for news which is a matter of important breaking news and an email is sent to the administrators notifying them that someone has submitted a "Newsflash". Members are told to use this tag very sparingly and only for matters of extremely important breaking news. All of the links which are posted on Fark are submitted by users and "greenlighted" by unpaid administrators or Drew Curtis himself. The administrators are personal friends of Drew, as are the moderators. The tags next to the articles represent the submitter's feelings on that article and do not necessarily represent the views of Fark or the administrator who greenlighted the article.

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Next to an article on Fark appears a number in parathensis that looks like this: (105). Clicking on this number goes to the discussion about the article. The number in parathensis is the number of comments users have made. The discussion part of the thread is where readers are encouraged to comment, discuss, and often argue the content of the link.

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