Taringa!

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Taringa!
URL http://www.taringa.net
Slogan Inteligencia Colectiva
Commercial? Yes
Type of site Social network service
Registration Free
Available language(s) Spanish
Owner WIROOS SRL
Created by Alberto Nakayama, Hernán Botbol, Matías Botbol
Launched Flag of Argentina January 2004
Current status Active

Taringa! is a virtual community from Argentina created 2004 by Fernando Saez and acquired November 2006 from Alberto Nakayama and the brothers Botbol (Matías and Hernán). In Taringa! Users can share all kinds of topics through posts. This site is Web 2.0 website.

Taringa! does not allow the publication of explicit material as a new site was created of similar appearance called Poringa!, In which users can publish this sort of content. While Poringa! Is a completely separate site, its users and moderators are the same as in Taringa!

The fame of both sites has grown largely thanks to appearance in national media for various items, to name the meeting of a boy with his father, after 25 years in less than 24 hours, or the video source intimate Wanda Nara, a famous argentinian model, whose post had more than 2 million hits and had an impact on television and magazines for several months.

[edit] System Users

All User s-with the exception of freshmen-have a certain amount of points with which to evaluate collaborations (posts) outside. Each time a user votes a post, the author sees increased its scoring staff, which over time allows you to climb in the range of users.

The ranges or types of users are:

  • Administrator: Managers have the same privileges as moderators but also are responsible for the continuing development of the site in technical matters.
  • Moderator: a moderator is responsible for maintaining order, peace and respect in Taringa!, Paying attention to protocol. There are 35 items per day.
  • Great User: is a prize for those who deserve it, there was no specific criteria for the award and the only difference with New Full Users or is Full Users who have 17 points a day.
  • Full User: the same privileges as New Full Users. It's called Full Users those who were registered before release of Taringa 3! (March 2007). Every day can give 12 points.
  • New Full User: after obtaining 50 points in a single post the freshmen become New Full Users and can make full use of Taringa!, Including comments and post in the general section. They have 10 points per day to qualify for other post.
  • Newbie: Users are newcomers to the community. Its activity is restricted to post and comment under section freshmen, but their access to the site's content is complete. They can not give points.

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