User talk:LUUWDA/Fluther.com

This is still a work in progress. Other people are going to contribute if you give us time.

Traction

Fluther has a robust community, and is a top 5k website in terms of traffic, see [[1]], with well over half a million unique visitors each month.

Fluther has also received a fair bit of press:

* http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/24/fluther-raises-600k-from-top-valley-investors-for-crowd-sourced-answers/
* http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009/09/25/fluther-which-crowdsources-answers-gets-some-big-name-backers/
* http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9734385-2.html
* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-pierson-and-barbara-harrison/the-new-wedding-rules-wha_b_105524.html

Fluther has been quoted as a source in the New York Times and a book that is being published this year.

Beyond the website's traffic, press and traction, Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, is actively advising the company along with a number of important Silicon Valley Investors like Marc Andreessen and Ron Conway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.36.140.21 (talk) 22:03, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I'll take that, but this content really needs to get into the article itself. Otherwise it looks much more like an advertisement than anything else. --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 22:11, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is a legitimate article about a popular website. It is not an advertisement or a promotion for the creators. Members of the site are independently creating this article with appropriate information. Please leave it up so we can complete it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joefedewa (talk • contribs) 03:11, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Article issues

I am not sure this meets WP:WEB criteria for notability. There are a few articles noted on the talk page, but I am not sure they are substantial enough to support the article. I do not see any inline use of the news article listed above. BTW - traffic has no bearing on the article - popularity does not equal Wikipedia notability. ttonyb (talk) 04:13, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

message from fellow flutherite

I'm wondering if there thould be a re-written article on Answerbag, and a List of answer sites made. Also try Wikinfo.Civic Cat (talk) 19:21, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Where does the term Fluther come from?

I added a 'citation needed' to the bit about it being the term for a collection of jellyfish. That may be the wrong way of marking that, but the only definition I could find online is the one on Fluther.com. The jellyfish page for example does not use the term, dictionary.com does not recognize it, etc. The only other place I have heard the term (and possibly the same place as the site owners heard it) is a card in the balderdash board game, which has many "words" that I suspect have been made up for the purposes of the game. 108.2.177.34 (talk) 12:48, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Futher, fluther is not listed as a collective term for jellyfish here: [2]], or here [3], or here [4], or here [5], or here [6] (that's also the winner for 'most irritating web form ever'), or here [7].

It IS listed here: [8] and [9], plus a number of places that obviously sourced Fluther.com. It is also listed on these two wikipedia pages: List_of_collective_nouns_by_collective_term_A-K and List_of_collective_nouns_for_fish,_invertebrates,_and_plants, but without citation on either page.

"Smack" seems to be the much more commonly accepted name for a group of jellyfish.108.2.177.34 (talk) 13:14, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]