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HitsHerMark
Unfictologist
[Meta] Say what? (Vocabulary and other such things) Okay, so I noticed that every so often people ask what a particular term means. At one point during OurColony, somebody described me as "Miss 'up with people'"... I don't exactly know what that means, but I suspect it makes me the "Unforums Sunshine Girl". So, I'm going to compile a short list here, and if you have a question like "what does this acronym mean", or "how do you...", or "Should I..." post it here and I or some other friendly person will answer.
here , which has some basic info as well as our posting guidelines. And here is the "Glossary Forum" with posts that contain expanded explanations of general ARG terms. What I have here is just a quick and dirty "at a glance" sort of... thing.
here
OOG : "Out Of Game" - This means that the information, thread, person, or site being described as "OOG" is not part of the experience/ARG/"Spiral Campaign", despite having something about it/him/her that makes it seem connected, and should be left alone.
"Tags" - A tag is a short one word or acronym that goes in brackets and describes the type of thread. There's usually a lot of activity in the forums so it's in everybody's best interest to be descriptive with your subject lines. If somebody tags a thread with [Humor] it's a thread for being silly. If it's [Press] then it's about a mention of what's going on in the news that is vaguely OOG (see below) but of interest. Other tags are defined below, but let me give you a few examples of how helpful tags can be.
OT : "Off Topic" - This means that the information, thread, person, or site being described as "OT" has no connection to the experience/ARG/"Spiral Campaign". The thread is there because it may be of interest to the community. Such as if you've made a back ground image for your PSP with some of the game content or you'd like to organize a multiplayer game of Halo 2.
Meta : Wikipedia has a good definition of "Meta" . In short it means something like "Data about Data". For our purposes, I think the best way to describe what meta means is information and topics about us the players, or about the PMs... Another example of something that's Meta is the fact that some of the images were edited on a Macintosh.
Spec : Short for "Speculation" - Not, as some might think, a very very small piece of something. There is no small spec, only small ARGers. [img=http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/images/icons/icon10.gif]
Update : This means that the thread is new information about an existing ingame (one word!) source (like a web site) has officially changed. An example of this would be if and when the SOTA finally start accepting membership applications (which they haven't as of this post), or when the countdown switched to "Server 5".
(AKA "trout") - In the case where something is brought up for the second, third, fourth, ...bajillionth time, that is called "trout". See HERE for the actual definition of "trout". Just because you're "trouting" somebody doesn't mean you have to be nasty about it. There are a lot of new people coming in as a result of Iris and a friendly word about using the search function works much better. The only people here permitted to be nasty are us mods, and we're only nasty to nasty people. Do you grock? *cracks knuckles*
Grok - (introduced in the name of an email address) To know intuitively . Like you grok that trees are pretty and fire is bad. SOTA - Short for "Society of the Ancients" - An ingame (it's one word now ya know!) web site and group of people.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:30 am
Last edited by HitsHerMark on Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:03 pm; edited 4 times in total
Phaedra
Lurker v2.0
I would like to add a sticky.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:47 am
redct
Entrenched
It's actually Grok (you misspelled it
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:52 pm
HitsHerMark
Unfictologist
redct wrote:
It's actually Grok (you misspelled it
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:22 pm
LordIllidan
Unfettered
Re: [Meta] Say what? (Vocabulary and other such things)
HitsHerMark wrote:
OT : "Off Topic" - This means that the information, thread, person, or site being described as "OT" has no connection to the experience/ARG/"Spiral Campaign". The thread is there because it may be of interest to the community. Such as if you've made a back ground image for your PSP with some of the game content or you'd like to organize a multiplayer game of Halo 2.
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:43 pm
aliendial
Unfictologist
The 'official' definition of trout is a bit more nuanced, and specifically NOT intended to refer to slapping anyone:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5238
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:58 am
HitsHerMark
Unfictologist
Updated!
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:34 am
dsweenLKN
Boot
It might not be necessary, as it is self-explanatory, but putting in a note about the [Humor] and [Press] tags might be a pretty good idea.
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:46 am
toxicpony
Guest
and now it starts.... top cola top cola = sota
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:26 pm
HitsHerMark
Unfictologist
Update! Added a description of "tags" as well as [Humor] and [Press] tags.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:04 pm
rose
...and then Magic happens
Trout The definition of trout it should mention that if you use a trout you must link to where the discussion first occurred (or to all the places it occurred if it is being asked or mentioned for the hundredth time) . I think in the olden times when the word "trout" concept first came into being, it wasn't possible to link directly to items on the list, so people just pointed to the name of the thread where it was contained. Even if I'm wrong about that, it should be required now, if you're going to trout someone, give us a link to where the topic was covered previously.
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:21 am
Chrono2x
Boot
you may want to mention the definition of what a PM is. I know that term confused the heck out of me when i first started playing ILB back in the day.
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:24 am
rose
...and then Magic happens
PM -PuppetMaster: the people making the game
the links page . Just go down the list on the left side.
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:50 am
thebruce
Dances With Wikis
Chrono2x wrote:
you may want to mention the definition of what a PM is. I know that term confused the heck out of me when i first started playing ILB back in the day.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:30 am
whitekeyes
Boot
Yo, what about QFE and IMO?
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:46 pm
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