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Poltergeist

logo of the website
Type of site	Web portal
Available in	Polish
Country of origin	Poland
URL	www.polter.pl

Poltergeist (also Polter.pl, old rpg.net.pl) is one of the most prominent ^[1] Polish web portals dedicated to speculative fiction. It has sub-editions about literature, cinema, comics, RPG games, boardgames, wargames, card games, video games and conventions. Polter.pl is also a blogging platform, and contains an extensive web forum.

The owner and publisher of Polter.pl is InteliMedia.

Polter.pl began its existence as an online magazine in 2000. A few months into its existence and after its first issue, Polter.pl turned into a web portal. Since 2004 the publisher of the web portal is Przemysław Prekurat. In 2009 the site changed its look, and in 2011 a payable service called Polter plus was introduced, which offered improved ease of use of the portal and the opportunity to win awards in cyclic lotteries.

Polter.pl got a few awards and mentions during its existence:

• In December 2003 the magazine Wprost named Polter its webpage of a week.^[2]
• In April 2005 Polter.pl was distinguished by the Polish editors of Playboy.^[3]
• In 2003 the International Association of Webmasters and Designers has granted to Polter.pl 2 Golden Web Awards (for the project of the gallery and the main site of the portal).^[4]

On 1 July 2010 Maciej Reputakowski became the editor-in-chief of the portal (before him, the function was claimed by Przemysław Prekurat). Before them, editors-in-chief were, in order: Tomasz Dzierżek, Maciej Dzierże, Rafał Błaszczak, Przemysław Prekurat and Piotr Brewczyński.

Structurally, the editors groups of Poltergeist are divided into sub-editor groups, defined by a common topic, directed by sub editors-in-chief.

Poltergeist patrons many publications of the Polish market - of books, comics and games.^[5] It also supports many conventions in Poland.

An integral part of the portal is a discussion forum. Poltergeist possesses one of the largest speculative fiction forums in Poland, with over 49000 registered users and almost 1 million posts.^[6]

Every registered user of Polter.pl can easily have their own personal blog integrated with the portal. As its peak, there were around 200 blog posts in a month.^{[citation needed]}

Editors of Poltergeist used to organize Poltergeist Rallies - week-long summer meetings during which people could meet with the editors and others fans of the portal. The Rally participance was free and open to everyone.

• Polter main page