Susning.nu
Logo of Susning.nu
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| Available in | Swedish |
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| Owner | Lars Aronsson |
| Commercial | no |
| Launched | 1 October 2001 |
In August 2009, access to Susning.nu was shut down entirely. No explanation for this was ever given.
Susning.nu was started on August 31, 2001, by Lars Aronsson and functioned as part of his personal website. It changed to Susning.nu on September 29, and was released on October 1. During October that year, Susning.nu was indexed by the bigger web search engines, and the article collection firmly increased. In one year, Susning.nu grew with 10,000 articles, and more features were added. Among them were link statistics for all pages, and date searching which automatically generated dates and search-links in several languages. The first edit war broke out on July 31, 2002.
Susning used a heavily modified version of as its . The domain name .nu, which belongs to the 260 km² island of Niue but which is sold primarily to foreigners, was chosen because it means "now" in Swedish (as well as Danish and Dutch). "Skaffa dig en susning.nu" was the slogan of Susning and translates to "Get a clue.now". The standard top level domain for Sweden is .se.
A significant difference to the was that Susning did not have any voluntary administrators who could assist in blocking vandals; the only person who could do that on Susning was Lars Aronsson. As Susning grew, the issue with vandalism became bigger. In December 2003, Susning was affected by a vandal who had automatized their activity through a script. In just a few minutes, thousands of articles were deleted. Several users were forced to spend hours restoring them. The issues increased even further with vandals who added pornographic images and made the site inaccessible. The issues with vandalism were practically going on daily. To aid removal of vandalism and discoveries of vandalism, a "karma system" was added on February 22, 2004. The system derailed fairly soon, as the karma only could decrease. Because of this, even the most established "susare" were affected by bad karma. The karma system was shut down on March 25, 2004.
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