Rumor

Rumor, another initiative of Directory9

What’s the Rumor? You tell us.

  • Discover: Find the most remarkable stories on the Web.
  • Vote: Vote for your favorite stories to give them the attention they deserve.
  • Comment: Tell the Buzz community what you think about various stories.
  • Submit: Add any story you find on the Web.

The Rumor of the web – chosen by you.
The Rumor can be about anything — from breaking stories on major news to viral videos on personal blogs.
Instead of editors, people like you submit the stories and “buzz up” the best ones.

How it works.
First, we determine the most popular topics that people are searching for .
Then, we showcase the most popular stories within those topics, based on activities like voting, commenting, and emailing stories to friends.
Stories with most Rumor may be published on our sites — you can impact what people will see on our pages.

Submiting Stories

What type of stories are appropriate for Rumor?
Rumor welcomes content from across the Web. Submit stories that you think other people might want to “rumor up”. Rumor does not welcome content that violates our Community Guidelines or  Terms of Service. We will block or remove such content.

Do editors determine which stories are shown on Rumor?
Nope. People like you influence which stories make it to the top of Yahoo! Buzz.

For each story that you see on Rumor, we develop a ranking. That story’s ranking is based on things like the number of votes it receives on Rumor, the number of comments it receives on Rumor, the popularity of related search terms on search engines, and the number of times that content is shared with friends over email from Rumor. Higher ranked stories are featured more prominently on the homepage of Rumor and within category pages.

We also have members of our team comb through all the top stories on Rumor and select items to appear on the Rumor homepage. Vote today on a story, and you could help send it along to the Web’s most popular starting point!

Is my activity on Rumor public? How can I change my settings?

 

Being public is what Rumor is all about—letting people know what stories you think are important and therefore worth sharing. So it’s not surprising that whatever you do in Rumor (rumor a story up or down, post comments about a buzzed story, etc.) is public—unless you change your Buzz Activity setting to private.

Note: Any comments you add to a rumor story are always public on Rumor, and after you post a comment, you can’t edit or delete it.

Note: Although no age restrictions exist for Rumor users, the Rumor Log is not public for users younger than 13.

For more details about privacy on Rumor, please review our Privacy Policy.

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