About Bordom

Bordom is an experimental uniblog project. Its purpose is to serve web content from a variety of sources. The hub of Bordom is the #bor channel, on the EFNet IRC network.

"Right, right.. but what IS bordom?", you may ask. Bordom.net is a collection of internet memes. It is a fountain of entertainment created by the masses. Bordom attempts to harness this everflowing stream of randomness and present it all in a usable interface.

The Bordom engine is built on the XML_RPC protocol. Because of this immaculate design, we're able to support additional content providers seemlessly from many sources. See the Contibutor Guide for more information about this, or if you are a developer, check out the BRAX API documentation.

Voting Queue / Submission Moderation

Bordom is a democracy. All contributed content to Bordom will be subject to a voting queue stage, where other members of the site will be able to vote on the quality of your submission. You may vote an item UP or DOWN. (+ or -) When your posted items receive enough votes, your item will be either promoted to the front page, or kept private. Items that are voted DOWN are not removed -- They are kept visible from your profile page but hidden from the front page.

Items that do not receive enough votes within an alloted period of time are automatically judged by an expiry monster. These items will be subject to being promoted to the front page or rejected, depending on the number of positive votes the item has received.

You must be a registered user to view the item submission queue. Items cannot be voted upon until they are moderated. This means that at least someone has edited the title, or added a caption, excerpt or added an image to the item. Only then can the item be voted on by others.

Score & Ranking System

Bordom is a popularity contest. Items contributed to Bordom are ranked by the number of visits each URL receives. The more your submitted link is visited, the higher it's ranking will be. This ranking is factored in also by the length of time that the item has existed. For example, an item that is a year old with 10 hits will not be ranked as high as a week-old item with only 5 hits. The item rankings directly relate to the contributor's base points.

In addition to item rankings, content contributors also maintain a bonus. Bonus points are awarded for the number of comments, votes, tags, etc given by registered users. These bonus points are added to their hit points to give their total score. See the Stats page for the complete list.

Credits & Support

Bordom is a community effort. Many thanks to those supporting this project with their content contributions and suggestions. All praise and worship to the #BoR manifesto, and the fellowship within. ell ohh ell.

This website and it's supporting IRC and API code was written and is maintained by Jason Hines <jason at greenhell.com>. The BRAX IRC robot was written and is being maintained by Jason Hines as Rbot module.

Early inspiration for this project was originally derived from DiaWebLog, a perl-based IRC weblog.

Special ~~thanks~~XOXOXO to Joey O'Doherty and T. Meggs for their continued support and direction -- and to Corey Wilson for his contributions to the mobile version of bordom.net and general bug fixes.

See the Terms of Use page if you have any questions or concerns regarding the content found on this website.

If you encounter problems on this site or have a suggestion, or just want to participate in the development of this project, see the Bordom Project page (hosted by Google) and open a new issue. If you're interested in seeing this project grow and prosper, join us on IRC. (EFnet #bor)