Talk:Terminology

Dumping old Proposed Terminology page to the talk page here:

Watching another's journal
Need a term for adding someone to your watch list and removing them.


 * Associate/Disassociate
 * Link/Unlink
 * Connect/Disconnect
 * Attach/Detach
 * Watch/Ignore (ignore might have bad connotations)
 * Subscribe/Unsubscribe
 * Follow/Unfollow (Twitter terminology)
 * Watch/Stop Watching
 * Watch/Unwatch


 * My personal preference goes to Watch/Unwatch, because it describes the action well, and both actions are only one word. --Snakeling 19:14, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Sharing protected entries with others
Tricky terminology--want something that doesn't imply the dramaz


 * Trust/Untrust (awkward, possible bad connotations)
 * Including/Releasing
 * Authorize/Remove
 * Authorize/Unauthorize
 * Permit/Remove
 * Allow/Remove
 * Open/Close
 * Grant/Revoke
 * Allow/Disallow
 * Invite/Uninvite
 * Unlock/Lock
 * Key/Lock (out?)

Possibility: have filters (need permission access) and channels (don't necessarily need permission; decision on whether to watch a given journal's channel given to the describer)


 * I like Allow/Remove, Allow/Disallow, and Grant/Revoke.


 * Trust/Untrust we should avoid on account of dramallama; Authorize is long and gets unwieldy when you stick the Un- in front of it. I don't think we should use Unlock/Lock because it inverts the action and that would get confusing, especially for non-native speakers. Most of the others are not descriptive enough, imo. --Snakeling 19:18, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Main and secondary accounts

 * Hub/Spoke
 * Primary/Auxilliary
 * Primary/Ancillary
 * Primary/Secondary
 * Primary/Subsidiary
 * Account/Persona
 * Account/Alias (IRC terminology)
 * Account/Journal (sort of LJ terminology)


 * Personally, I really liked Master/Slave, but I can see why it's a bad idea ;)


 * I like Primary/Secondary more than the other Primary/alternates, because it's easier to understand for a non-native speaker.


 * Account/Persona or Account/Journal would be a good idea, but I feel there's a slight shift in meaning from Primary/Secondary. I personally would describe an account as something that's above all the journals/personas, even if one was created before the others; while Primary would be the very first created journal, with the others are Secondary. Not sure whether I'm managing to convey what I want to convey, here. --Snakeling 19:23, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Other

 * Network -- refers to everyone you are watching and trusting