Kuro5hin

Its motto is Technology and Culture, from the Trenches.

The site is remarkable for being almost entirely community driven. All content is generated by and selected by the users - with the exception of site news, which comes from Rusty. 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.

An interesting feature of the story queue is Edit Mode. Edit Mode 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.

Rusty Foster, the site's founder, named Kuro5hin (pronounced "corrosion") as a pun on his first name. The 5 was inspired by Da5id in Snow Crash. Dylan Griffiths (Inoshiro[?]) is the second in command as site administrator. Additionally, there are a number of other people with powers of story editing (although not comment editing) and site administration.

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.

see also Advogato, Slashdot

External link

• Kuro5hin.org (http://www.kuro5hin.org)
• Kuro5hin.org FAQ (http://www.kuro5hin.org/special/faq)
• Ko4ting, a K5 Companion Wiki (http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~paquetse/cgi-bin/k4.cgi)
• Interview with Rusty Foster of Kuro5hin.org (http://www.dotcomscoop.com/article.php?sid=163), Dotcom Scoop, January 28, 2002
• Meatball Wiki's entry on K5 (http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?KuroShin)