Frequently Asked Questions

  1. What kind of stories can I submit?
    Submit your favorites. Find an article, image, or video online and submit it to iAwaaz.com. Your submission will immediately appear in “Upcoming Stories,” where other members can find it and, if they like it, Awaaz Up. Become popular. Once a submission has earned a critical mass of Awaaz Up, it becomes “popular” and jumps to the homepage in its category. If it becomes one of the most popular, it qualifies as a “Top Stories”. If a submission doesn't receive enough Awaaz Up within a certain time period, it eventually falls out of the “Upcoming” section. Discover media on iAwaaz. Visit the “Upcoming” section to discover recently added news, and videos. 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.
  2. What is Awaaz Up?
    Awaaz Up refers to the goodness of a story. It shows how the iAwaaz community likes the story and clicked over the Awaaz Up link to show their acceptance.
  3. What is user score? How does it calculate?
    User score indicates the contribution of an user in iAwaaz. Most of the activity of an user in iAwaaz has associated score:
    Activity Score
    Registration/OpenID 05.00
    Story submitted 10.00
    Story appears in front page 05.00
    Story clicked* 00.01
    Upcoming story promoted* 03.00
    Published story promoted* 02.00
    Mark story as spam* 05.00
    Comment submitted* 01.00
    Comment marked as offended by moderator -1.00
    Story incorrectly marked as spam -1.00
    Spam story submitted -50.0
    Spam comment submitted -20.0
    *Story that is not older than 10 days.
    (The above scores might change in future without prior notification)
    If user score falls down in minus figure, the account will be automatically disabled.
  4. What is TopMovers & TopLeaders?
    TopMovers are the users who earned the highest score in last 24 hours and TopLeaders are all time highest score earners.
  5. How does stories get published? Why my story never get published?
    Stories are published based upon votes aka Awaaz, comments, freshness, views, user score (who voted it), source of story etc. The more the story has these values the more chance it has to be published. Once the stories are published the top 50 stories are listed in the front page. The story publishing process runs 4/5 times in a day depending upon the upcoming story queue.
  6. I am a blogger, how can I put the Awaaz counter in my blog's post?
    The easiest way to get the counter html is from your submitted story page, just go to that page, click the show counter code link, copy the html and put it in your blog post.
    Below is an example of how to add Awaaz Up to your blog or site. 
    <div class="shoutIt"> <a rev="vote-for" href="http://iAwaaz.com/Submit?url=YOUR_POST_ABSOLUTE_URL">
    <img alt="Awaaz Up" src="http://iAwaaz.com/image.axd?url=YOUR_POST_ABSOLUTE_URL"
    style="border:0px"/> </a> <div>