What is Elistic?

Elistic is a social link-listing site. It's not just for news! It's any site or page you think is interesting and want to share. You can post new links, rate existing links by giving them between one and five Bullet Points (we're sticking with the list theme here!), and discuss them with your fellow Elistic users.

As you post and rate links, Elistic can begin to recommend new links for you! The more links you rate, the better the recommendations will get.

Stay up to date by viewing the list of the community's best and most frequently rated links. And once you've rated a few links, Elistic can recommend new links, just for you, by finding users with tastes similar to yours.

How to Use It

First, create an account and rate some links. This will help Elistic start to make new recommendations for you. When rating a link, give it a high score if it's something that you find interesting — you don't necessarily have to agree with the content or the site. If it's not interesting, don't be afraid to give it a low score. That also helps Elistic figure out what you like.

Look at the popular list to see what people are most interested in. It shows you the links people think are interesting based on votes made in the last day, but you can expand your view by including votes made in the last week or month, too.

If you want to post new links while you're surfing, use the bookmarklet to make it super simple.

After you've rated a few links, take a look at your recommendations, and rate some of those, too! Rate more links to get better recommendations.

What Makes Elistic Different?

Elistic's personalized recommendations engine:
By analyzing the ratings you make, and finding other users who have made similar ratings on the same links, Elistic can find new links that you're likely to appreciate, and recommend them for you.

Nothing to hide:
There are no secret algorithms here (see How it Works). In the spirit of openness, it is our goal to work with the Elistic user community to figure out how to best represent lists of links so that they remain resistant to manipulation, spam-free, and most importantly, relevant.

To that end, please feel free to participate in the Elistic Google Group, where we can discuss Elistic and the way that it works, and determine the direction the community will take in the future.

One Person, One Vote:
There is no concept of "karma" or "super users", based on the popularity of the links users list or rate, at Elistic. Everyone's ratings counts as much as everyone else's -- no more, no less.

The last thing we want is for a small group of users to gain an unfair level of influence on the link lists. That sort of thing leads to poor diversity within the lists, and the exclusion of dissenting or new community members.