For Your Delectation - Tripartisan.org

OK folks, I'm going to do something I rarely do - give a plug to somebody else's site. The site in question is Tripartisan, a site which aims to be a social news-type site specialising in satire. You know the sort of thing - Digg, Propeller, Reddit are all well known examples of the social news site - people sign up as users, submit stories and vote on them. Hopefully, a community of like-minded individuals grows up around the site, they get exposed to stories they might otherwise have missed, the stories themselves actually reach an interested audience and get some decent traffic. Everybody's happy. Of course, all this is easier said than done - getting these things up and running is the difficult bit. In order to attract users, they need publicity. So here I am, doing my bit for a new start up.

But why am I championing this particular site. Once again, I must stress that I have no connection with it. I do, however, have an ulterior motive - the need to generate traffic for The Sleaze. That's the unique selling point of Tripartisan - it specializes in satire. None of the other social news sites do this. Sure, they have 'humor' categories, but if you submit there, you'll find yourself rubbing shoulders with cute pictures of dogs in hats, videos of people falling over and stories about people getting their penises stuck in letter boxes. In such circumstances, carefully crafted satire doesn't stand a chance. Consequently, such sites tend to drive very little traffic my way (or to most other satire sites). That's why I think we should get behind this new venture. So, if you are a satire-site owner reading this, get over to Tripartisan and start submitting your stuff. Even better, if you are a reader interested in satire, get over there and start submitting stories from your favourite sites. Go on. You know you want to.