As part of Salafimedia’s facelift this weekend, the site added a bunch of cool new features, including my favorite: a radicalization score.

Although there’s no official description for what the “radicalization” score refers to, it presumably increases the more content you post to your profile. Here’s an example of a profile page on the revamped site:

You can see that this user has a low radicalization score.  This is likely because the feature has just been added and, well, every member on there who has uploaded info to his/her profile seems to have the same “rad” score.  The point is that the idea of making “cool points” or what is generally known as a “reputation score” within other forums has not been reconceptualized as “radicalization” – the more radical you are, the cooler or more legitimacy you carry in the forum.

Besides your “rad” score, the new SalafiMedia site has all the social network functionality that you need to create a self-sustaining environment for users, including an MP3 library you can customize:

and profile information:

and your own photo library: