Muti— For Those Interested In AFRICA

By admin at November 25, 2007 | 8:17 pm | Print

What Company Is Offering:
Muti is a social bookmarking site inspired by reddit and Digg but dedicated to content of interest to Africans or those interested in Africa.

How it Works:

Registered users submit links to news stories, articles or any item of interest. Other users have the opportunity of voting these submissions up or down. An up vote will increase a submission’s score while a down vote will decrease its score.

Voting is achieved simply by clicking on the arrows (,) which appear to the left of the submitted items. Only registered users may vote. Voting also determines the “kudus” of a user. Kudus (a word play on both “Kudos”, and also a southern african antelope) are similar to what many other sites refer to as “karma”. Kudus are earned (or lost) by other users voting for a submission. Thus if I submit an article and ten people vote it up whilst three vote it down, I will earn seven kudus for that article.

There are a number of different views which show the submitted items in various ways. These are explained below.

hot – This is the default view. It lists submissions in order of a “hotness” or “heat”, which is calculated based on the amount of voting within recent time periods. The more up votes an item has received within recent time periods, the higher it will appear on the list. Note that the “score” displayed below each item is NOT the same as the “heat” but is rather a composite score based on voting over all time AND the number of times the item has been viewed or read.

new – This view lists submissions in the reverse order in which they were submitted, in other words the newest submissions will always be at the top of this view.

top – The top view shows the submissions in order of a composite score based on total votes of all time and on number of times the item has been viewed or read.
More at:http://muti.co.za/

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