Welcome to Infomate, the unique site where you control the content. Forget heavy-handed administrators and over-zealous moderators. Here, you decide what goes and what stays. This is your community and your site, where the power lies in your hands.
Infomate is a self-regulatory, information sharing community. Our concepts are based on openness, relevancy and promoting equal rights for all members of community.





There are many news portals, forums and sites available online allowing users to share information. These sites are regulated by administrators, who have the power to delete posts and suspend users as they see fit. The problem is, many administrators do not use their power correctly. Some may suspend members just because they don’t agree with what they say or stand for, rather than for any legitimate reason. Perhaps you have been unlucky enough to be banned from a web resource by an unfair administrator. You will have tried out other similar sites, and perhaps come across more of the same. We want to change that, and give the power back to the users. You are, after all, the ones that make the sites successful. At Infomate, we completely reject the idea of external administration and transfer full control over the whole website to users themselves.
In an attempt to realise this ambitious idea, we have created a specialised voting system for all content, including stories, comments, tags and users.The decisions made on this site rely upon or are the result of votes cast by people who actually use the site.
You can vote for a story and rate your feelings about it, and based on the collective thoughts of our society, the good stories almost always make it to the top. The same goes for comments. You can set your own rating threshold, which means any comments with a score below your threshold are shown collapsed to you. You can adjust this threshold from your Account Settings. Every user has a score, which reflects the user’s popularity and standing within the society.

If you really like or dislike some users, you can add them as your friends or foes. All stories created and comments posted by your foes will be less visible to you. On the other hand, we have created a friends view that lets you see the information posted on this site through your friends’ perspective. Adding someone as a friend or foe also affects their rating, so users with many foes will generally have a low rating among the community.

However, to prevent malicious users from posting illegal content, the society needs a way to control the information. Infomate provides this with the help of certain democratic processes. We believe this is what sets us apart from other information-based websites. There are no super administrators. And even though there are moderators, their role is different from what you might expect. Normally every inferior story or comment is hidden away thanks to the users voting against them, but if this is not sufficient and the story or user needs to be deleted forever, the moderators have the power to start a moderation process.
By pressing the moderate button, the process enters stage one, where all the users, start voting for or against the content in question. If enough users vote against moderation, the content is returned to its previous state. If more people voted for moderation, it is deleted. If not enough users participate in the vote, more time is given, so that everyone has a chance to express their opinion. The number of moderators needed is calculated as a fixed percentage of the population, and the status of moderator can be achieved by having a high user score.

On top of this, at Infomate you can instantly find information relevant to you with the help of parametric information searching and sorting. You can sort content either by the date it was posted, or by its community rating, or (uniquely to us) by the rating your friends have assigned to it.
Due to the wealth and variety of information available here, we’ve introduced a few features that let users effortlessly find what they are looking for.
Firstly, there is the community tag system, which we have taken to a whole new level. Forget tag clouds that just don’t make sense. Here users can vote and change the tags of each story so that they are uniform in style and spelling. The auto-complete system further helps to support a uniform tagging system. Users with a higher score have greater impact when changing tags.
Secondly, you can choose to sort stories by their date, community or friend score. You can also choose to see only the stories that contain your favourite tags.

We hope that every user who joins our community will be able to fully express his or her views and thoughts, and will be able to learn about the views and thoughts of others. We hope that through this process of interaction we can all make Infomate an information sharing community we can all enjoy.