Talk:Upworthy: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Revision as of 01:35, 20 April 2014

Websites: Computing Stub‑class Mid‑importance

	This article is part of WikiProject Websites, an attempt to create and link together articles about the major websites on the web. To participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page.WebsitesWikipedia:WikiProject WebsitesTemplate:WikiProject WebsitesWebsites articles
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Computing.

Internet culture Stub‑class Mid‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Internet culture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of internet culture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Internet cultureWikipedia:WikiProject Internet cultureTemplate:WikiProject Internet cultureInternet culture articles

Stub

This article has been rated as Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Internet culture To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : View all requested internet culture articles
Expand : Pick an article from here or here
Photo : Category:Internet culture articles needing images
Stubs : All stubs are located here
Other : Category:Internet self-classification codes (!?); Try to get YouTube to FA; Tag all articles you find with {{WikiProject Internet culture}}
- See also Category:Internet culture articles needing attention

Since CT school shooting Upworthy has turned into anti-gun rights left wing propaganda site

As can be noted on their Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/Upworthy) as well as their rapidly dwindling "Like" count and accusations of their politicizing the tragedy to push a left wing political agenda. This fact should probably be reflected in their wiki page. BillyTFried (talk) 21:26, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Upon a deeper investigation of their actual website http://www.upworthy.com/ it is clear they are a left wing political site as nearly all of their content falls under such liberal political themes. BillyTFried (talk) 21:50, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hijacked article - serious, not "left wing"

The site is clearly focused on advocating serious, vs. shallow, issues, as described in their own informationa and elsewhere, e.g. In this New York Times article http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/new-site-wants-to-make-the-serious-as-viral-as-the-shallow

However the Wikipedia article has quickly been hijacked to try to portray it as left wing. Ironically, the reference used to try to justify the cliam in turn references the above mentioned NYT article!, which says something quite different. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.64.13 (talk) 22:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

They're self-admittedly left-wing ([1]). Co-founder is founder of MoveOn, a famously left-wing site ([2]). Others call it progressive, left-wing, and liberal ([3], [4], and [5]). EvergreenFir (talk) 22:52, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"viral" content?

THAT IS NOT WHAT VIRAL MEANS! it does not mean "popular"! it means "under the pretense of being unofficial"

@@ Line 14: / Line 14: @@
 However the Wikipedia article has quickly been hijacked to try to portray it as left wing.  Ironically, the reference used to try to justify the cliam in turn references the above mentioned NYT article!, which says something quite different.  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/86.144.64.13|86.144.64.13]] ([[User talk:86.144.64.13|talk]]) 22:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
 :They're self-admittedly left-wing ([http://www.upworthy.com/about]).  Co-founder is founder of MoveOn, a famously left-wing site ([http://www.theguardian.com/media/us-news-blog/2012/mar/26/upworthy-new-media-website-facebook-moveon]).  Others call it progressive, left-wing, and liberal ([http://www.huffingtonpost.com/colin-holtz/the-story-about-conservative-media_b_4561564.html], [http://lonelybrand.com/blog/upworthy-headlines/], and [http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2013/09/18/eli-parisers-raises-another-eight-million-dollars-in-funding-for-upworthy/]).  [[User:EvergreenFir|EvergreenFir]] ([[User talk:EvergreenFir|talk]]) 22:52, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
+== "viral" content? ==
+THAT IS NOT WHAT VIRAL MEANS!
+it does not mean "popular"!
+it means "under the pretense of being unofficial"