New York, NY - March 3rd, 2007 - AboveTopSecret.com (ATS), a very popular Web site community for "alternative topics," announced today the official launch of its unique "User-Defined Content Presentation" system and associated content flagging tools. "This new system has turned our discussion platform into a full-featured dynamic content delivery system" says Mark Allin, Partner and Director of Business Development.
The new custom built technology provides a suite of tools for members to define topics and discussions that are of importance to them. Automated software analyzes this input from the members and uses their real-time fluid rankings to present headlines and story snippet summaries on the Web site's home page and forum summary pages. The result is an ever-changing hierarchal summary of relevant and timely discussions, as defined by the users, without any need for webmaster intervention.
"Imagine thousands of people all voting on the content of your index pages," Says Bill Irvine, Partner and Community Director, "and all the best material automatically gets arranged in order of importance. That's exactly what we have, and now the users are in charge of what shows up on our home page."
Bill continues, "Content voting is nothing new to online communities and social networks. Digg has shown well such an idea can work. But we removed the option to 'vote down' topics from the mix, and tossed in replies, views, and timeliness into the overall equations. Now we have exceptionally dynamic home page and forum indexes that see the top headline change several times a day, or, depending on our members, stays static for days."
The new content flagging and "User-Defined Content Presentation" system fits seamlessly into the discussion board platform, and members need only flag threads of interest to them. "As topics rise in importance from the flagging, more attention is paid and more members participate in what turns out to be highly compelling discussions of timely subjects," Says Simon Gray, Partner and site founder.
The new tool is available to all members, at no extra charge, and adds to a growing list of unique features that make AboveTopSecret.com a remarkable experience in user generated content.
AboveTopSecret.com was originally created in 1997 by Simon Gray of Swindon, UK. Over the years it has evolved into one of the Internet's top-20 most-trafficked discussion boards (by Big-Boards.com) with a focus on provocative and highly engaging subjects such as conspiracy theory, extraterrestrials, UFO's, paranormal, and other speculative "alternative" topics. With 147,380 members creating 5,002,069 posts covering 385,760 intriguing topics in 157 different forums, you can say "the truth is in here".
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