New forum based words needed....

[bothrops]

Hi Guys

The longer I spend on the forums, the more I realise there just aren't enough words in the English language to describe all the events that occur on these boards.

Therefore I propose a thread that helps to elivate this issue by creating the necessary words to fill in the gaps.

Mostly I'm think of specific types of posters or posts but anything goes. I'll start us off, but please add to the list.

There may already be terms for these, or I may even have stolen some, but originality is over-rated anyway!

You will need the word and the description.

Forumite - One who inhabits the forum

Threadromancy - Someone posting on a thread more than a year old as if it had just appeared yesterday with no apparent knowledge of its age


Oblivipost - The sort of post that appears at the end of a heated and detailed debate thread, often many pages long. The oblivipost is typically the posters first on the thread and reads as if they have read the title only then posted straight away as if the other 37 pages couldn't possibly have answered or discussed their point....


Lexicogiftless - This is a contraversial one. This is the term used to describe the poster that simply refuses to use any sort of spell check, dictionary or education when composing their posts. Typos and genuine learning difficulties are exempt from this term. Lexicogiftless posters use terms such as 'kk', 'somthink', 'wont' (I believe they mean 'want'), 'fink' and 'morfs/morths', they will never dream of using punctuation and capital letters are optional and, if used, random.


wallwee thread - This term refers to the 'who can pee highest up the wall thread'. Typically accompanied by a poll these threads always begin with 'who's got the..' and often end with such words as 'biggest, longest, oldest, most' etc etc. The thread then goes on, usually for many pages with forumites from all over coming to add their pee. Mostly the thread has no point nor end, nobody actually reads anyone elses pee and once they have peed themselves, never revisit it either. The OP never completes by summarising or ranking the pee heights.

slowmentative - This term refers to posters who have a very strong opinion and aren't afraid to voice it but are a little slow on the uptake if their theories are proved to be a little 'foundationless'. Often they will reply to other forumites long, detailed and well researched posts by quoting the whole post and replying in four or five words to one mis-read sentence.





Come on then guys... your turn!

Cheers

Andy

[excession]

luv this thred i so no wat you mean!




wallwee = Epeen maybe..

But the above made me smile anyway.

[Freakinfreak]

Ahaha,
It's like the famous "my stick is bigger than your stick"
The "Noobonator" - someone with little or no knowledge of something that happens to say something which then creates a domino effect on other forum members who get increasingly peeved off with each other which then snowballs into one huge heated discussion and ends with the grand finale of the thread being locked

Good idea

[bothrops]

Originally Posted by excession

luv this thred i so no wat you mean!




wallwee = Epeen maybe..

But the above made me smile anyway.

That's a little lexicogiftless of you isn't it?

Surely you mean

"I love this thread. I so know what you mean!" ?

[excession]

Originally Posted by bothrops

That's a little lexicogiftless of you isn't it?

Surely you mean

"I love this thread. I so know what you mean!" ?

Aye indeed - I was trying for a nice example

The worst one i think is the use of 'no' for 'know'...

Abbreviating is fine but swapping one word for another does get on my nerves

[bothrops]

Originally Posted by excession

Aye indeed - I was trying for a nice example

The worst one i think is the use of 'no' for 'know'...

Abbreviating is fine but swapping one word for another does get on my nerves

I'm also personally very fond of the multiple puctuation/emoticon brigade that seem psychotically excited all the time!!!!!??!!!! Mmmuuhhahahah!!!!!!!!:notwor thy:!!!

[bothrops]

No more words folks?

Come on - surely you guys can think of a few more?

[strictly_scales]

Hows about the "Myo-poster"

Myo-posters are those who fail to read through current posts on recent occurances, and so start a fresh thread on the same topic again. Example: The Burm that killed the girl in Florida a couple of weeks beack- I counted at least 4 threads- at one point the top 4 in snakes were on the same topic.

[Meko]

The newpert : The newbie forum expert who makes a suggestion on how the forum will be 'better' because they saw it just like that on a forum nobody ever goes on.

[bothrops]

Love them both! So glad someone found this thread! I thought it had some legs but kinda died......hopefully it'll just be a slow starter!



I kinda think Newpert needs a couple of meanings i.e.

Newpert. noun. (pron. N-ewe-pour-T)

1. The newbie forum expert who makes a suggestion on how the forum will be 'better' because they saw it just like that on a forum nobody ever goes on.
2. The newbie, single snake owning poster that regurgetates rubbish that his 'pet shop expert' has 'learned him' and refuses to take anything the countary from established long term keepers!

another

sporadder. noun. (pron. Sp-or-add-er) (alright, so I'm not good at phonetics! LOL)

1. the forum member that has been on the forums for years but has less than a hundred posts. They don't post very often, but when they do, they REALLY mean it

antonym of sporadder

obsessadder

1. the forum member who has been a member for a matter of months and yet has made thousands of posts, I have no intention of trawling through them all, but I can't see how someone with a 44 post a day average can be pushing the frontiers of herpetological expertise with EVERY post.....