Similar here, I guess it doesn’t have to be DiS exclusive terms only.
Well I always forget FTFY for ages but I’m pretty sure it means “fixed that for you”. I have no excuses anymore
Good one, totally forgot that!
aha really?!
yours is more fun
I probably should have gone through it first to pick out the useful stuff to make a decent sized list in the opening post, but just starting to look through it now I don’t particularly want to be reading through some of that stuff and wouldn’t wish it on any new user to have to get their head round it either.
Discobot is worth putting on the list, but I am unsure of a succinct explanation.
will it benefit me to know what RTF means
Old DiS/New DiS: the former refers to the original forums before they became the latter in September 2016 when the boards migrated to their current form on Discourse. [more detail necessary?]
Discourse: the host (?) of the DiS boards.
cba: can’t be arsed
EDIT: probably would be wise to have a subsection for self-doings
Respect the format! (Usually of an Ask Me Anything thread)
thank you
RTF: respect the format (used primarily in Ask Me Anything threads to call out someone breaking the format, also used in other threads with a stated format)
Edit: or what ccb said much more concisely before me.
EDIT: a revision to a post made in the brief window after submitting the post and editing no longer being possible.
Thanks @colon_closed_bracket, these were the kind of things I was blanking on. I was just about to go into a random old day or evening thread to look for common things.
Le Tournoi: where two or three people make the same response in quick succession, someone responds with Le Tournoi. (Citation needed)
X years old, Y was: (if someone could do an intelligible definition of this it would be great, mine rambled to much).
Walked in on some unexpected beeves? grandpasimpsonturnsaround.gif
Can someone explain ‘eggs’? (As used in the thread tagging).
