Bordom.net is a democracy. All submitted content is put into a holding queue, where it is moderated and edited for quality by registered users. When the content is approved by the community, it hits the front page. The content found on Bordom.net is completely driven by it's community, from IRC and over the web.

Posting Items via IRC

Bordom grabs any urls posted to the channel, and is quite greedy. When an item is added, the bot will say "K: <title> [#N]". N is the number ID of the item and K is the letter ID. The number ID is permanent, but the letter ID is not. You may use either the item's letter or it's numeric ID, both are OK.

The letter ID is generated by Bordom when a new link is posted to the channel. Users can use this letter ID as a shorter way to refer to that link. The letter ID "A" is only 1 character, whereas the number ID's may grow quite large.

To have Bordom ignore a URL completely, prefix the URL with the ~ or ! character.

  This link will be ignored: ~http://example.com

When a URL is posted that already exists, the item is updated.

NOTE: You must be a channel operator to interact with Bordom on IRC.

Web Contributions

Content can be submitted directly to bordom from the submit page. Several types of content can be contributed:

• URL to a remote website
• Image file uploads (PNG,JPEG,GIF)
• Video file uploads (AVI,MPG,MOV,WMV,FLV)

Alternative Methods of Contributing

See the Tools & Downloads page for a complete listing of utilities available for Bordom contributors.

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 removed from the queue, and will not appear on the front page.

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 image to the item. Only then can the item be voted on by others.

Links 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 amount of times 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.

In addition to item rankings, content contributors also maintain a score. Each person's score is determined by the number of hits to items they have contributed, and the quality rating and popularity of those items. Bonus points are awarded for the number of comments and ratings given by registered users. See the Stats page for the complete list.

To embrace the full power of Bordom content management, you must be an operator in the IRC channel.

Adding Comments

X: <comment> adds the comment to the item "X". Within the comment you can embed images, urls, and mailto links as well as add special formatting.

Example comments:

  X: That's pretty funny.
  X: That's pretty lamo.
  X: Did you see http://www.example.com
  X: +http://www.example.com/logo.gif

You can bold and italicize words and phrases in your comments by using special characters * and _. For example:

  X: *this is bold*
  X: _this is italicized_

You may also add your comments via the web by clicking on an item's permalink.

Deleting Comments

You can remove a comment permanently by using the trigger:

  !delcomment 1234

... where 1234 is the comment's ID. There is a safeguard in place to ensure that people do not delete each other's comments. To override this feature and to delete a comment posted by a nick other than your own, use:

  !delcomment 1234 --force

Grouping Items in a Set

Item sets provide a means to group items which have identical content together in a group. Think of a set of photographs pertaining to a particular social event, or a set of articles reviewing the same product. When item sets, you are able to combine these into the same group. Item sets differ from tags in that, tags are a generic way of relating items which may or may not even be related at all.

Example item setting:

  X: set 1234 5678

The above command creates an item set from item X, and adds items #1234 and #5678 to it's set.

Tagging Items

Tags are a way to help organize the thousands of items in the database. You can tag one or more tag words to an item to help identify that item. These tag words are then used for searching, and finding other related items that share that same tag word.

Example tagging:

  X: tag banana

The above command would add the tag banana to item X. You may specify multiple tag words, by separating them with commas.

  X: tag humor, irony, monkies, bananas

Editing Items

X: <command> performs <command> on item X. X can be either the letter ID or the numeric ID. The edit commands are:

  X: title <title>	Set X's title to <title>
  X: url <url>		Change X's URL to <url>
  X: caption <caption>	Set X's caption to <caption>
  X: excerpt <excerpt>	Set X's excerpt to <excerpt>
  X: image <url>	Set X's image to <url>
  X: thumb <url>	Set X's thumbnail image to <url>
  X: nick <nick>	Change X's author to <nick>
  X: tag <tag>		Adds tag word <tag> to item X (comma separate multiple tag words)
  X: untag <tag>	Removes tag word <tag> to item X
  X: set <Z>            Adds item Z to a set with item X
  X: hide 		Flags item X as hidden
  X: show 		Flags item X as visible
  X: nsfw		Flags item X as NSFW (not safe for work)
  X: sfw		Flags item X as SFW (safe for work)
  X: bump		Bump item X to the top
  X: info		Retrieve information about item X

See the illustration below for a reference of what goes where.

Other IRC Commands

  !help			Print URL of this document
  !help <cmd>		Display help for a given command
  !queue		Print a summary of items in the queue awaiting moderation.
  !search <word>        Search for items matching key word
  !delcomment <id>      Delete comment by given comment ID
  !unset <X>            Remove item X from any item sets

Bordom has a quotes database too. They are displayed randomly at the bottom of this website.

  !quote		Display random quote to the channel
  !addquote <quote>	Add a quote

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>.

Inspiration for this project originally derived from DiaWebLog, a perl-based IRC weblog. Bordom IRC module is written by Jason Hines for PHP-IRC, a PHP-based IRC bot system.

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 and submit a ticket. If you're interested is seeing this project grow and prosper, join us on IRC. (EFnet #bor)