WTF?!?

Well, it looks like a series of unfortunate events backed things up last night and we had to roll back WTF. We're working on some streamlining so that we can put it back out there.

In the few hours that it was live, several people decided it was a Digg rip-off. Sure, they both have voting and hey, they both let you vote on things you find on the web. However, on Digg you vote for other peoples articles and posts on the web. On Technorati you create an explanation about popular searches, or about something you think people might search for. People can then vote for your explanation if they find it enlightening and entertaining. When a term is searched for we put the most popular WTF explanation on that topic at the top of the search results. This way you can know WTF before reading posts that talk about the topic but may not explain it.

Essentially we're trusting our users to know WTF, after all, they're the ones talking about it. We're opening ourselves up for spam, but that's what the voting is for, and again, where our users come in. So when we put WTF back out there, give it a try; form your own opinion.

Tags: WTF, Technorati