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