Glossary

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The Pligg glossary defines terms commonly used in Pligg that might not be used outside of the project.

Bury: Allows users to mark stories they consider to be below standard, for example, spam. How is bury calculated, how does it work?

Karma: A method for weighting users by quality of participation, based on stories submitted, comments, buried stories and other user actions. This feature is still in its early stages and is not complete.

Pligg: Pligg is an open source content management system. Pligg's free software creates sites driven by user generated and moderated content. Pligg was created on December 17, 2005. Pligg's co-founders are Eric "Yankidank" Heikkinen and Damon "AshDigg" Wirth.

Pliggy Bank: All donations made to the Pligg project are collected in our "Pliggy Bank". By donating to Pligg you will receive a Pliggy Bank badge that appears on your forum profile and on all of your posts. The Pliggy bank icon is also used for the Pligg Pro shop.
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Published: Stories that appear on the front page are known as "published". These stories must meet certain voting minimums to make it to the site homepage.

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Save/Remove: Adds or removes stories from a logged-in user's Saved (favorites) list.

Smarty: The template system used for designing Pligg templates. Please see the official Smarty homepage for more details.

Upcoming: Stories that have recently been submitted, but have not received enough votes to make the front "published" page.

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