Sk-rt Kick Pleats

Kick pleat, n. : An inverted pleat in a skirt used to give breadth.

Sk-rt.com experienced rapid growth in last few months with 12,000+ active users and 30,000+ published news. Since Vote buttons often distract people,Sk-rt.com wanted an alternative way. Moonrank team formulated innovative ranking system based on page visit, later on referred as Silent vote. Moreover, visitor may anytime un-vote the page if the content does not quality or even push the link to spam list. New site identify votes by Unique IP and therefore lessen hassle of registration. To protect news submitters from spammers we added Email verification system as another small module.

Kick Pleats introduced concept of Editors. Editors are senior users who can directly publish news from incoming pool. Since Editors are selected by users vote they act like senators and make the site more useful. Moonrank provided Ajax based interface and editors modules . Moonrank also developed new database tables to record Editors biography and full picture.

Moonrank believes in integrity of Pligg system so all the features are tightly integrated with Pligg API inside separate modules. Another advantage is these features can be turned on or off anytime from admin panel. As new Kick Pleats features were released the site traffic almost got doubled.


Sk-rt newsletter , expressed: We sk*rt chicks cooked up this redesign over coffee one morning and produced a very rough sketch of what we wanted. We sent that sketch to Moonrank and POOF! They delivered this website -- a complete restructuring of the code behind the curtain -- exactly as we wanted it. So they're also mind readers.
We could not be more happy with them and their work and we strongly encourage you to pay them a visit if you ever need help with a Web 2.0-ish endeavor of your own.

• Date: March, 2008
• Client: Sk-rt
• Technology: Pligg, Ajax, CSS, XML

Website: www.sk-rt.com