All-in-one knowledge platform in Voofie

The Knowledge Community

Voofie aims at building a global knowledgeable and talented community. You can join us and shape the community according to your preferences.

What can be posted on Voofie?

Basically everything! Post your research findings, homework, shopping experiences, cooking recipes, etc.. Basically everything that others find useful can be posted, just make sure they are correctly tagged so that others can find it.

Treat Voofie as a blog, forum, bookmarking site, Q&A site etc that cover most of the concepts in the world.  Voofie will be an all-in-one platform for your information needs.  Start posting your knowledge, showcasing your multiple talents, contributing to the world and helping others at the same time!

Community Sense

On Voofie, each tag page and each search result is a community by itself.  You can refine your own forum page by doing a search using different combination of tags.  After submitting a post, it will be immediately shown to other users so each search result is a dynamic community that updates continuously.  Notable users on the topic will also be listed so that you can interact with experts on the topic more easily. 

Moderation

Voofie is simply moderated by everyone. There is no moderator to decide which post is offensive or is a spam, it is up to everyone to decide.  If you encounter a questionable post, just give it a negative score. Then the post will be ranked lower or even be removed if it receives negative scores repeatedly. 

Discussion

You can post anything other than Article, Question or Link using Discussion Type. 

Threaded discussion

You can comment on every post on Voofie.  Discussion on Voofie is threaded, that means you can reply to each comment specifically.  To see replies to a comment or reply to that comment, simply click "Reply" button.

Click on "Reply" to show reply to comments. Click on the blue bar to hide the replies.

Comment Voting

You can "Vote Up" and "Vote Down" each comment.  Each "Up" vote will increase the impact factor of the comment, while "Down" vote will decrease it.  Indeed different people will have different voting power. Your own impact factor will affect the impact factor of the comment when you vote.  The higher your impact factor is, the more power you will have to change the comment impact factor.

Comments Sorting

All comments on Voofie can be sorted by four methods: oldest, newest, reply and impact. 

• Oldest: Oldest post is listed first
• Newest: Newest post is listed first
• Reply: Comment having most replies is listed first
• Impact: Post having the highest impact factor is listed first

Article

An article is for detail, original, informational argument or description on a topic.  You may starts a discussion for brief comments.  Post a link instead if your article is not original.

The aim of article pages is to create a body of knowledge like Wikipedia, a centralized knowledge base for knowledge of all humanity.  However, unlike Wikipedia, Voofie welcomes duplication of articles as different author may have different perspectives, analysis and personal point of view on the same topic.

Special features for Article Pages

There are several features that are only available to article pages.

Save Draft

As articles are lengthier and require more time to write, Voofie provides the functionality of draft-saving for you to save your work so that you can continue working on your article later.  To save a draft, press "Save Draft" button.  You can access the saved draft in "Manage Post" page, which you can find in your profile page.

Versioning

Revision of articles will be kept tracked with versioning. Other users can view the history of the article to see how the article is amended.  Difference between versions can be visualized using version comparison.

Inline comments

Besides the normal comments that appear after the articles, you can comment on specific sentences by adding inline comments.  As inline comments refer to specific sentences, so please use it if you want to suggest the author some improvements (such as adding a link, correcting a typo or requesting citations), while main comments are used to give overall comments on the article.

Sentence with an inline comment. Click on the sentence to show its inline comment.

Please note that inline comments are specific to article versions, which means the inline comments will not automatically appears on new version after the article being edited by author.

Question

Question posts are for asking questions with an objective answer. For open-ended questions that do not have a definite answer, post a discussion instead.  Try to search for similar questions as other users may have asked the same question before. 

For answers, in addition to being voted up and down similar to comments, answers can also be selected as the "Best Answer" by the user who asked the question.  Answering questions which are asked by experts will gain you higher impact factors when your answer is selected as the "Best Answer".

Link

If you find a web page interesting and would like to share with others, it is better to post a link than copy & paste the content to Voofie.  Doing so not only to respect intellectual properties, but also to save your time and preserve the original formatting of the page.  To discourage copy & paste the whole web page, such behaviour is considered as abusing and may subject to deduction in your impact factor.

A link should consist of a summary that briefly describe the content of the linked page.  Try to summarize the target page in a few sentences.  Of course if you do not want to do so, it is also acceptable to copy and paste the first few sentences.