Image via WikipediaYou wouldn’t think it was possible for someone to come up with an awesome new Web 2.0 site at this late stage, when we’re all abandoning Facebook and ditching Twitter and so on, but I’ve found it.
Soapboxxer has aspects of Twitter, and also aspects of Usenet. You collect points like it was a game, but you can’t do anything with them, like Technorati rank.
How it works is this:
Some soapboxxer dude posts an opinion. You get to agree or disagree. You may also post a comment in support of your position, and read comments by others. All this without signing up.
If you choose to sign up, for those all-important points (you can win a T-shirt if you have enough) it’s the simplest of procedures. You can follow other posters, and they can follow you.
Some of the opinions are a bit lame, such as Apple>Microsoft, but others get good reactions, or allow you to show off. There’s no threading, but some people appear to come back later and make new comments. Don’t know if I could be bothered with that. Anyway I’m up to 396 points just from goofing around. Definitely something to drop in on once in a while, for some light relief. I’m all about light relief, me.
Now there’s an interesting site. e.g. “I thank the president for keeping us free from terrorism” — xXSascrotchXx (1429 auth)
You disagreed. 90.9% of people also disagreed.
90.9% interesting demographic — people on the Web who would vote on an item in soapboxxxr don’t think the President is keeping us free from terrorism.
Comment by Sal — May 4, 2008 @ 3:35 pm |
Nifty site.
Comment by effay — May 5, 2008 @ 5:23 pm |
sounds like something zero shoulda thought of and probably did.
anyway, I award myself a million points and the rest of the interwebnets is cunts. See? I don’t need some poxy website to win.
Comment by Dr Zen — May 8, 2008 @ 7:13 am |