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Forum Slang; understanding it
Topic Started: Apr 12 08, 10:19 AM (3,114 Views)
Donut
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Avatar: The small image underneath your name.

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Bump: Stands for "bring up my post." People use this when nobody is replying their threads, and their thread is getting pushed to the back page.

Chat Room: A page that you can have live chat with your other forum members.

Emoticon:
Also know as "smilies."

Flame:
A hostile and insulting interaction between forum members. (that line was copied directly from Wikepedia.)

Flood Control: An option that can be changed in the Admin CP: This option makes it so that you have to wait X number of seconds between each post that you make.

Forum Game: A text-based multiplayer game.

Moderator: A member that has been granted the ability to delete others posts, edit others posts, topic titles and descriptions, etc...

Role Play: A form of text based games that lets multiple people make a characters and tell a story with them, while all along following the whole plot of the big story.

Spam: There are many kind of spam, but the most common is posting completely pointless, random and off thread posts.

Stick Post: A thread that has been "pinned" so it does not get bumped to the back page, and/or so members will see it when they sign in.
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Admins, feel free to add any more slang to my previous post.
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Emoticons are also known as 'E-motes'
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THE MASTER OF ROCKET LAUNCHERS!!
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you never mentioned umm that Role plays are usually called RPs
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Agh! Okay, I guess I will have to add a bunch of junk. But I am not doing it right now because I'm feeling lazy.
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