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| Available in | Turkish |
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| Owner | Serkan Yağlısaç, İsmail Alpen |
| URL | http://inci.sozlukspot.com |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
İnci Sözlük is a Turkish online social community website. Since its foundation, it has been gaining popularity. It is primarily known for being the first to announce an anomaly in Twitter's code on May 10, 2010.[1] Unscrupulous users were able to exploit this bug to add unconfirmed users to members' "following" list. The community also abused the translation function of facebook,by mass-voting for dirty and suggestive translations. On the official webpage of the community there are stars for famous pranks they organized. The website is often compared to 4chan and regarded as the Turkish version of it.[2][3]
Even though it has a moderation system for the content, Inci Sozluk lets its users write about almost any content(e.g. pornography, daily life), with some limitations (it excludes politics, third party abuse, religious views, copyright violation etc.). The website represents many some of the many sub-cultures that have grown in Turkey since the 2000s. Parodies of cliches and hatred of registration difficulties (writer approval queue) and intellectualism on Ekşi Sözlük which is first in sözlük websites, where İnci Sözlük came from are the main subjects of the discourse of writers in.[citation needed] Members of the website do not hesitate to express their feelings about all subject matters, using an especially preferred "politically incorrect" language.[citation needed] Content of most of the passages, is related to the Japanese world view and aesthetic approach Wabi-sabi which represents the beauty of imperfection.[citation needed] Some regard the website as the way for Turkish youth to face the reality that "there is no great future waiting for them, nothing is going to be better and nobody is perfect" which the feel is the opposite of the promises that have been made by dominant political messages in the 90s and in pop culture.[citation needed]
The community is also widely blamed for the hoax regarding Atilla Taş, a Turkish pop singer who they started labelling as Greek after the release of his Gangnam Style parody "Yam Yam Style", which was widely criticised in Turkey.[4][5]
References
- ^ CNet – Twitter confirms awkward 'auto-follow' bug
- ^ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/29/facebook_translation_turkey_prank/
- ^ http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/facebook-prank-lost-in-translation/
- ^ http://www.ensonhaber.com/inci-sozluk-atilla-tasi-yunanistana-oteledi-2012-10-14.html
- ^ http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/social-media-campaign-tries-to-brand-turkish-song-as-greek.aspx?PageID=238&NID=32364&NewsCatID=374
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