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 The Fark homepage on June 1, 2011 | |
Type of site | News Aggregator |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | September 1997 |
| Owner | Drew Curtis |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required to post (free) |
| Launched | 1999 |
| Current status | active |
Fark is a community website created by Drew Curtis that allows members to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. The site receives many story submissions per day and approximately 100 of them are publicly displayed on the site, spread out over the main page as well as topical tabs that are organized as entertainment, sports, geek, politics and business). Curtis says the stories are selected without intentional political bias, but that he tries to run both far-left and far-right articles.[1][2]
Links are submitted by Fark members (collectively referred to as "Farkers"), whom admins can approve ("greenlight") to post on either the main page or one of the subsidiary tab pages. Other than sponsored content, links have associated threads where users can comment. Greenlit links can generate upwards of 300,000 page views in one month for the recipient. This can generate such an enormous amount of traffic in such a short time that smaller websites thus linked are often rendered inoperable due to congestion or simple server failure. This is colloquially referred to as the website being "farked" by the community.
- ^ Marcotte, John (December 14, 2003). "Interview: Fark's Drew Curtis". badmouth.net. Archived from the original on February 19, 2009. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
- ^ Scott Baradell. "Media Orchard Interviews Drew Curtis of Fark.com". Ideagrove.com. Archived from the original on 2015-03-31. Retrieved 2015-05-14.