Barrapunto was a Spanish-language
Slashdot
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-like
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, founded on 7 June 1999, which is part of a complex
social network
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among Spanish-language websites. In 2006, it was the winner of a 20Blogs Award from the online newspaper ''
20 minutos'', in the category "Mejor comunidad de un blog" (best blog community). The site and its community have also been the subject of both English- and Spanish-language academic research.
The name is derived in the same manner as Slashdot, with the Spanish "http://" pronounced "hache-te-te-pe-dos puntos-barra-barra" and "https://web.archive.org/web/20040819080505/http://barrapunto.com/" pronounced "hache-te-te-pe-dos puntos-barra-barra-barra-punto-punto-com". Barrapunto runs
Slash
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, the open source software used by Slashdot, and materials are published under
CC-BY.
Barrapunto was founded by six professionals and teachers in 1999 as a meeting point for the free software community. By 2005 more than half a million comments had been posted and almost 40,000 stories.
After six years of silence, in January 2018, the website's Twitter account published one tweet to announce a technical stop and it has been down ever since.
Notes and references
External links
BarrapuntoBarrapunto vs. Slashdot: Challenging the Scalability of Self-Moderated Communities
- a presentation by computer scientists Samuel Navarro and Gwendal Simon comparing the use of moderation on Barrapunto and Slashdot
Web portals
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