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Revision as of 15:05, 17 April 2009
The Dreamwidth project has some jargon in common use that may not be familiar to the general public. While these are not official terms that you should know, or necessarily Dreamwidth-specific, general explanations or definitions may be helpful.
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Words
- BNF: Big Name Fan. All the conflicting definitions seem to boil down to "someone famous within fandom".
- cat macros: Images of cats with funny captions. Sometimes used as a form of protest and/or mockery.
- fandom: A general term for a community of people who are fans of things, such as "sports fandom", or "Star Trek fandom". When used without qualification, it often (but not always) refers to science fiction and fantasy book and media fandom.
- nipplegate: A controversial LiveJournal event.
- spoons: WTF Spoons
- strikethrough: A controversial LiveJournal event.
Technical
- Beta: Contrary to the precedent set by things like Gmail, "beta" actually means "we expect that stuff is going to be broken, that's why it's not out of beta yet".
- ESN: Event-Subscription-Notification, the original development name for what eventually became the inbox/notification system.
- RTE: Rich Text Editor, something that lets you add formatting to text as well as just do plain text. Contrast with HTML editor (plain text, although you can type in HTML formatting manually). LJ's RTE gathered a lot of dislike from LJ volunteers.
- WTF/Project WTF: Rather than "What The F---", this is Watch-Trust-Friend(s), the project of splitting LiveJournal's original Friends into Watch/Trust (this eventually became Read/Access).
People
- Brad Brad Fitzpatrick is the original creator of LiveJournal. While he is not affiliated with the Dreamwidth project, if someone name-drops "Brad", it's probably him.
- Mark is xb95
- Rahaeli, or rah, is also known as Denise, D, and synecdochic
Other Resources
- Jargon File Many words from a gentler, more precise era of technology, although some are still in use today.
- Urban Dictionary Let the reader beware.
