📖 Teh Official Discopædia (Forums Dictionary)
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Discoerror
nounAn error or oddity in any software triggered, directly or indirectly, by Discourse
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Discoreason
nounA reason that only works in the context of Discourse; often manifests itself as a Discobug
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YKYHBSTMTOWTDWTFW (also Y13W citation)
abbreviationShort for 'You Know You Have Been Spending Too Much Time On What The Daily WTF When'. Used in the thread of that name: http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/you-know-youve-been-spending-too-much-time-on-tdwtf-when/2603
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YKYHTMTOYHW
abbreviationShort for "You Know You Have Too Much Time on Your Hands When". Used when describing actions one would associate with the current holder of the old Too much time on my hands badger.
See also: accalia
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Disconumber
nounAn inaccurate number created by discoquoting stripping the formatting from a number such as 263, turning it into 263 in the quote.
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Discourseo
nounMistake or misinterpretation caused by discoquoting dropping semantically important markup or otherwise mangling the quote. Disconumber is a special case of this.
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TRBI
abbreviationThe Real Bad Idea. See also TRWTF. First seen here in the Bad Ideas thread.
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Discorainbow
nounA rainbow, but not necessarily of the usual seven colours; equally likely to be seven shades of grey.
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Discoterm
noun- A term coined in response to a Discofeature, a Discobug, or something else related to Discourse
- A term defined by the Discopædia
- A terminal that is rainbows. May also have discoursistent parsing of arguments
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Discoquery
nounA query that returns results that look correct at first glance, but on further analysis, turn out to be wrong, despite there being no reason for them to be so.
Possibly a manifestation of a Discobug.First used in The Lounge by @RaceProUK
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Jeffranging
verbJeffing a post within the same topic in order to change post ordering.
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Blakeybaiting
verbPosting comments specifically intended to annoy blakeyrat, who appears to be here for that exact purpose.
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Duckhorse
nounA derogatory term referring to Discourse. Meant to inspire images such as:
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A modern alternative to a Trojan horse. Used as a bug delivery platform.
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Wooshocity, Whooshocity, Whooshitude
adjectiveA measurement of the whoosh qualities of a post.
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[make] DiscoSure
idiomTo repeat the same action a few times (on something that isn't a toggle) to ensure that the desired result is achieved.
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Discobat
nounSimilar to a clue bat, a discobat is used to "correct" user expectations. Unlike a clue bat, a discobat is used to increase expectations of discoursistency and other Discobehaviors.
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Discoproto
nounDiscoproto is a forum solution that predated Discourse, yet has some eerie similarities. It was custom created for the Lock Legion, a group of
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Discodice
nounA form of dice used to predict when a Discourse installation is going to be overcome with server cooties
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Blakeyfact
nounA statement made as if it is the undeniable truth, despite not being so
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Bit mean?
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Jeffrence
noun- Quote or reference to something once said by Jeff. [Citation]
- (unofficial) Quote or reference to something once said by a Discodev.
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disenjeffulate
verb- To un-jeff (see jeff) a post or group of posts. [Citation]
- (unofficial) Opinion of @WTDWTF of discourse and DiscoDevs in general.
See also: Jeff
Credit @FrostCat
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YMBNH
abbreviationYou Must Be New Here. TDWTF meme when someone expresses surprise at illogical behavior by Discourse or certain well-known forum members. Usually directed ironically at someone known to be familiar with the expected behavior.
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Discothink
verbTo think of a solution that, on the face of it, solves a problem, but actually doesn't; bonus points if the solution to the problem can only be found by causing the problem.
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Onyx
verb- To do something random, only to find that there was a hidden, clever joke you didn't notice. Example: "I've been onyx'd"!
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jeffspiracy
nounAn act that has all the hallmarks of a conspiracy, but is in reality a Jeffing of some description, usually to end an argument without actually having to justify said argument
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Discosense
nounA bizarre sort of sense that only makes sense to a Discodev. In extreme cases, only Jeff can untangle Discosense. [Citation]
See also Discologic
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Mega Jeff™
verb- To jeff with the most jeffing jeff that can be jeffed; to jeff to the void.
- To jeff something so hard that not even the owner knows what happened to it.
Examples: I can't find my
PM any more. It must have been Mega Jeffed™. My bug on meta.d was Mega Jeffed™.
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Filed under
noun
A TDWTF meme dating from the time it ran under Community Server, which allowed assigning tags to posts, and displayed the tags in the form:
where the links went to pages of search results for the tags. TDWTF being what it is, the tags were never used for associating related posts, like a normal forum would use them, but as jokes that might or might not be related to the topic of the post.
This is mimicked under Discourse by simply typing "Filed under: Tag..." as the last line of the post. The tag is made an ordinary link using HTML, BBcode or Markdown syntax, usually with either empty href, or pointing to a non-existent "#tag" anchor. Sometimes the href points to a silly non-existent (since Discourse strips out any real anchor you might attempt to create) anchor "#somethingRelatedToTheFiledUnderJoke", to zombo.com, or (rarely) to a real page related to the filed under joke. This is even more of a joke under Discourse, since it lacks a useful search feature to find tagged posts, even if they were tagged sensibly.
In NodeBB, the Filed Under meme must also be faked, but only the HTML and Markdown options are available.
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Discofy
verbTo apply a transformation. modification, or manipulation to make something more Discoursistent.
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SockDrawer
nounThe development team behind SockBot and ServerCooties.com
Members:
@accalia
@RaceProUK
@Onyx
@YamikuronueContributors:
@TwelveBaud
@abarker
@loopback0
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Discodefine
verb- To define something in a way that is consistent with Discourse on TDWTF.
- To define something in a way that is discoursistent with Discourse on TDWTF.
- To add a discodefinition to the Discopædia.
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Flux Discapacitor
nounThe device used by Discourse to determine the timing and order of events
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discomarkdownbbparsersanitizerbeanservice
nounThe device used by Enterprise Discourse Installations to (theoretically) remove bad HTML from posts
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Jellypotato
*noun* A nonsense bug that neither users nor Discodevs can figure out. Currently used to refer to a bug where clicking a user's avatar causes scrolling of the page and/or hijacking of usercard content. It is posible this term might encompass other bugs, but such use has not yet been encountered in the wild.Hijacking and you
Any subsequent usercards you view will have the content of jellypotato causing usercard. While highly entertaining it also causes huge amount of confusion to unsuspecting users.
Current known jellpotato carriers
First occurence: A post in /t/1000
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Jeffuchet
nounThe urge to hurl something, most likely your mobile device, at Jeffs head after prolonged used of Discourse. Because this would bounce off Jeff's ego any projectile would require more power to have any effect. Hence the use of a Jeffuchet.
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Thanks to @Jarry for providing the citation
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Newlevator
nounThe blue scroll bar replacement because InfiniScroll screws the normal browser scroll bar over until it is an unrecognizable mess.
Bikeshedded from Greenbar.
light blue newlevator
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Discogods
n. (pl)
The administrative team for TDWTF and the Discourse developers.See also: Codethulhu
I've tried every permutation I can think of of selecting it before uploading, selecting it after, selecting a different one and then going back, trying to upload a .jpg instead of a .png, and making blood sacrifice to the Discogods.
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Insta-close
verbTo close without allowing any chance for reply. This often leaves others being frustrated at being unable to express their opinions or ask clarifying questions. But that's just too bad, this is the way of Jeff.
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Infailiscroll
nounAn infinite-scrolling system that often fails in unique and infuriating ways. For example, in a forum, posting too near the end of a loaded chunk of posts causes the next chunk of posts to never load.
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Belgium
banned proper noun
At the moment, one of apparently only three words that are filtered with the Dischorse ban list. (The others areelgiu
andb.....m
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Thread-iversary, Threadiversary
nounThe anniversary of the creation of a thread or topic. Only celebrated for still-active topics.
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Discofeature
nounAKA Discobug
- A feature that only those that are Doing It WrongTM would call a bug
- A feature where functionality and way to operate stay the discosame in a discoursistent way
- A feature that TCotCDCK-ians find useful, and all others annoying (at best)
See also: Discobug, Discobehavior, Discofail
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Working
adjective- Functioning as designed or intended
- Being productive
- Opposite of Discourse
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