About Airfares.com.au
Airfares.com.au is a place for people to discover and share travel content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure travel packages, airfares.com.au surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at airfare.com.au — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online.
How do we do this? Everything on airfare.com.au — from airfares to cruises to holidays to hotels — is submitted by our community (that would be you). Once something is submitted, other people see it and vote for what they like best. If your submission rocks and receives enough votes, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of our visitors to see.
And it doesn’t stop there. Because airfare.com.au is all about sharing and discovery, there’s a conversation that happens around the content. We’re here to promote that conversation and provide tools for our community to discuss the topics that they’re passionate about. By looking at information through the lens of the collective community on airfare.com.au, you’ll always find something interesting and unique. We’re committed to giving every piece of travel content on the web an equal shot at being the next big thing.
How Airfares.com.au Works
Airfares.com.au is democratizing digital media. As a user, you participate in determining all site content by discovering, selecting, sharing, and discussing the news, videos, and podcasts that appeal to you.
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Discover
Submit your favorites. Find an airfare, cruise, holiday, or hotel online and submit it to airfares.com.au. Your submission will immediately appear in “Upcoming Storylinks,” where other members can find it and, if they like it, they vote for it.
Become popular. Once a submission has earned a critical mass of votes, it becomes “popular” and jumps to the homepage in its category. If it becomes one of the most popular, it qualifies as a “Top 10”. If a submission doesn't receive enough votes within a certain time period, it eventually falls out of the “Upcoming” section.
Discover media on Airfares.com.au. Visit the “Upcoming” section to discover recently added airfares, cruises, holidays, and hotels.
Of course, you can always check the topic homepages to see what's newly popular. And you can subscribe to RSS feeds of particular topics, popular/upcoming sections, individual users, and the search terms of your choice.
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Select
Vote. Participate in the collaborative editorial process by voting the stuff that you like best. As you vote, you contribute to the popularity of any given item. You also build a history of voting that you or your friends can view.
Bury. If you find storylinks with bad links, off-topic content, or duplicate entries, click “Bury.” That’s how we get the spam out of the system and let the good stuff rise to the top.
The system only works when users actively participate on a large scale, so make sure to do your part and Vote and Bury content that matters to you!
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Share
Build a network. Invite your friends or find them and add them to your friends list. Then your friends can track what you’re voting and you can see what they vote as well, enabling you to collectively find travel items together.
Email. Send your friends the storylinks that you voted.
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Discuss
Comment. Share your opinions by commenting on airfares, cruises, holidays, and hotels as well as Voting and Burying comments by other users.
Take A Tour
Discover
Airfares.com.au is a place for people to discover and share travel contents across the web, from the biggest online destinations to the most obscure travel packages. Airfares.com.au surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users.
Every article submitted to airfares.com.au has a count of how many votes the storylink has received. You need to be signed-in to add a storylink. For every registered user that clicks "Vote" the count goes up one. If a storylink reaches the tipping point, then it gets promoted to the homepage.
Participate
Want to contribute some more? Find an interesting cruise, holiday, and hotel online and submit it. Your submission will immediately appear in "Upcoming Storylinks," where other members can find it and vote for it.
Share
Share your favorite stuff with friends, links to your pages on del.icio.us, Digg or Pligg, or your own favorite web pages.
Share your favorite stuff with friends. Update your profile with a few photos of yourself.
Connect with friends
Add your friends to see what they're voting for. Friends' activity is a running list of all your friends' actions within Airfare.com.au (votes, comments, submissions, etc.). While you can discover a lot of new stuff that the community finds interesting, it's even cooler to see what your friends are voting for.
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