VOL. 2 no. 6 beta
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
FAQs
How do I participate in The Contrarian?
What is the list of trusted sources?
Why does The Contrarian use trusted sources?
I tried to submit a quote and was told The Contrarian couldn't verify the text. Why?
Why bother with verifying the text?
I tried to submit an image and it didn't show up in my selections. Why?
Contrarian Answers
To submit contrarians you need to register. Once registered, you can submit content to The Contrarian.
Voting allows The Contrarian community to determine what content deserves the most attention. Users should look for contrarians that are particularly relevant at the time. If a contrarian has little contrast or, say, cites two articles that have little to do with eachother, users should give it a low vote. Contrarians that are of particularly high contrast and relevance should be given a high rating.
Users should flag contrarians in which the two quoted articles have nothing to do with eachother or appear to be a mistake. For example, a contrarian that highlights a quote from a sports story and pairs it with a quote from a financial story is unlikely to represent two contrary takes on the same subject. It would be correct to flag this contrarian. Flagging a contrarian does not automatically remove it, but brings it up for review from administrators.
Submissions to The Contrarian must come from these sites.
Al Jazeera
AOL News
Atlanta Journal Constitution
BBC
Chicago Tribune
CNN
FOX News
LA Times
London Times
Miami Times
MSNBC
Newsweek
NY Post
NY Times
San Francisco Chronicle
Seattle Times
The Guardian
TIME
Toronto Star
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
Washington Times
Yahoo News
The Contrarian keeps this list in an effort to keep its content relevant. This list list will continue to grow over time. If you'd like to suggest a site for reference, please email trustedsources@the-contrarian.org
All the text on The Contrarian is checked for validity. Some aspects of this process are still in development. Try starting or ending your text selection in a different place. Even better, try submitting from the "Printable version" of the article. These tend to be stripped down to just text and create less conflicts with our verification process.
Accuracy is very important to The Contrarian. We want to make sure the data we're working with is 100% authentic to the sources we're pulling from, so that our users can focus on the quality of the information presented.
Some web pages use flash and other methods to display images that The Contrarian can't find through traditional means. We're working to include these in our processes.
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