What is...

[sparkletarte]

~plonking? I haven't come across this word on other boards I visit.

~ymmv? ditto.

Thanks.

Feel free to list your curiosities here as well.

[ronski]

Plonking: to "plonk" is a message board technical function (that is not apparently available yet here) where you can specify users who you don't want to see entries from. The board will then automatically screen them out.

YMMV: "your mileage may vary". i.e., slang for "this is how it worked out for me, but your results may be different."

Good questions. Lots of terms here that I hadn't known before. Like what a "sock puppet" was.

[DVD Burner]

this thread may help with certain definitions.

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... hlight=411

an as you probaly have already noticed, I like to have my plonker hanging out all over the place. feel free to plonk my plonker anytime.

[sparkletarte]

Thanks. I made up 'your mind may vary' for ymmv, which is kinda the same anyways.

I did actually click on your super plonker button. It got my computer cranked up so I closed my brower because I wasn't sure what the heck was going on.

Um, sock puppet, I guessed is a version of a codpiece, a la chili peppers.

[ronski]

Thanks. I made up 'your mind may vary' for ymmv, which is kinda the same anyways.

I did actually click on your super plonker button. It got my computer cranked up so I closed my brower because I wasn't sure what the heck was going on.

Um, sock puppet, I guessed is a version of a codpiece, a la chili peppers.

HAR! I like your definitions better than the real ones. Sparkletarte should be the official Jargonator.

Uh, a "sock puppet" is deceptive, alternate user identity that someone creates to give agreement to their own arguments or just generally stir things up. Or jump back into the bulletin board after they've been cut off by admin. You'll hear a lot of speculation here about what users are "real" and which are just additional creations of the same person. But like your definition above, there may indeed be dicks involved.

[sparkletarte]

Ha! Way off base with that one, er, sort of! I don't think I actually read the posts where I saw it used, I skimmed them, and thought it was some inside joke, something to do with the gourdpieces. I imagined all these guys running around with socks hanging off their dicks, of course with shirts on.

Maybe camp sock puppet would be a good theme camp- come as your eplaya alter ego or wearing nothing but a sock, your choice.

[DVD Burner]

This thread got a little off topic in the begining but as you read on you will understand what sock puppets are.

[Lilly Flower]

I like an occassional sock puppet.

[G.W.B.]

I think George W. is the best president America ever had.

And God bless America.

[PurpleKoosh]

~plonking? I haven't come across this word on other boards I visit.

From the Free Online Dictionary of Computing:

plonk

<networking, abuse> (Possibly influenced by British slang "plonk" for cheap booze, or "plonker" for someone behaving stupidly; usually written "*plonk*") The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. While this term originated in the Usenet newsgroup [url=news://talk.bizarre]talk.bizarre[/url], by 1994 it was widespread on Usenet and mailing lists as a form of public ridicule.

Another theory is that it is an acronym for "Person with Little Or No Knowledge".

I also recommend checking out The Jargon File.

[BAS]

I always thought that "plonk" was supposed to come from the sound of something dropping into a toilet...?

[Bob]

No -- the bottom of the bit bucket.

[Bob]

Of course, it's from a day when most (l)users knew what a "bit" was.

[DVD Burner]

Of course, it's from a day when most (l)users knew what a "bit" was.

You mean byte bit?

[Bob]

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