What does OOC stand for?
Adejaani
11-09-2003, 08:33
OOC means Out Of Character. In other words, you, the person says and does whatever.
IC means In Character. In IC mode, you can be female, Elf, a tyrant, Communist, bloodthirsty, three husbands etc Anything IC is pure role play.....
ok.. thanks. This is the first role playing game I ever played.
While we're on the subject...
Abbreviations
IC: In Character
OOC: Out Of Character
RL: Real Life
RP: Roleplay
NS: NationStates
IMO: In My Opinion
IMHO: In My Honest/Humble Opinion
BTW: By The Way
OMG: Oh My God
WTF: What The [f-word]
AFAIK: As far as I know.
IH: In Humour
TG: Telegram
TM: Telegram
Admin: Administrator
Mod: Moderator
FM: Forum Mod
GM: Game Mod
Smilie: Emoticon
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Other Forum Terms
Bump (and variations): Used to send a topic of interest to the top of the forum board.
Tag: Used when a reader has nothing to add to the conversation, but wants to keep an eye on the proceedings.
MODALERT/Modalert: Used to gain attention from a moderator to threads where spam, flame etc. has occured.
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Illegal Actions
Spam/SPAM: Off-topic, irrelevant and multi-posts that clog the server. This includes posting lots of smilies.
Flame: Expressing anger in uncouth ways with OOC comments (i.e. swearing, being obnoxious, threatening etc.)though it does to watch what you post IC as well unless the other posters know you're not serious.
Flame-bait/Trolling: Posts that are made with the aim of angering people (like 'ALL JEWS ARE [insert vile comment here] for example).
Griefing: Harassing a nation because of something they did or said.
Multi: Someone who has more than one UN nation.
Region Griefing: Region Griefing is the malicious cousin of "region crashing". Where "crashing" involves moving several nations into a region at once and taking over the delegate-ship, griefing involves less savoury events afterwards. [shamelessly plagarised from Enodia]
Godmoding/Godmodding: Look here: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15957
Other Terms
Region Crashing/Invading: Gaining delegateship in a region through force. For more information as to what is a legitimate invasion look at the etiquette section of the FAQ. (http://www.nationstates.net/pages/faq.html#etiquette)
TG and T-Gram means... TELEGRAM. I assume you know "lol" and "roflmao" already?
Well I fequent other forums... and here... well I'm just new to this type of forum using.... I'm drooling...
Cogitation
12-09-2003, 05:03
Flame-bait: Posts that are made with the aim of angering people (like 'ALL JEWS ARE [insert vile comment here] for example).
DISCLAIMER: The below is presented as an example of flame-bait.
*sigh* Please, Sirocco, the newbs don't need you to explain everything to them. :roll:
DISCLAIMER: The above is presented as an example of flame-bait.
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Note that flamebait does not necessarily have to contain flames, itself. In that example, I didn't flame Sirocco, but I did flamebait him.
In a debate, flames are easy to identify: Flaming is attacking a person rather than attacking their philosophy or logical arguments. Flamebait is sometimes a little more subtle than that. Both flames and flamebaits are prohibited on these forums.
--The Modified Democratic States of Cogitation
NationStates Forum Moderator
Flame-bait: Posts that are made with the aim of angering people (like 'ALL JEWS ARE [insert vile comment here] for example).
DISCLAIMER: The below is presented as an example of flame-bait.
*sigh* Please, Sirocco, the newbs don't need you to explain everything to them. :roll:
DISCLAIMER: The above is presented as an example of flame-bait.
...
Note that flamebait does not necessarily have to contain flames, itself. In that example, I didn't flame Sirocco, but I did flamebait him.
In a debate, flames are easy to identify: Flaming is attacking a person rather than attacking their philosophy or logical arguments. Flamebait is sometimes a little more subtle than that. Both flames and flamebaits are prohibited on these forums.
--The Modified Democratic States of Cogitation
NationStates Forum Moderator
Isn't that trolling, not flame-baiting? Almost every forum I've been to calls that trolling.
Peng-Pau
12-09-2003, 21:30
Append to Siro's Post:
More Commonly used Abbreviations
WTF: What the fsck.
AFAIK: As far as I know.
Flame-bait: Posts that are made with the aim of angering people (like 'ALL JEWS ARE [insert vile comment here] for example).
DISCLAIMER: The below is presented as an example of flame-bait.
*sigh* Please, Sirocco, the newbs don't need you to explain everything to them. :roll:
DISCLAIMER: The above is presented as an example of flame-bait.
...
Note that flamebait does not necessarily have to contain flames, itself. In that example, I didn't flame Sirocco, but I did flamebait him.
In a debate, flames are easy to identify: Flaming is attacking a person rather than attacking their philosophy or logical arguments. Flamebait is sometimes a little more subtle than that. Both flames and flamebaits are prohibited on these forums.
--The Modified Democratic States of Cogitation
NationStates Forum Moderator
Isn't that trolling, not flame-baiting? Almost every forum I've been to calls that trolling.
No, it is not. Or at least that I know of. I know Overclocked Remix, VG Mix and SoundTempest go by this rule. I don't know if Anime Remix does, because, honestly I never bothered to check. But I could be so wrong about the ZSNES, KVR-VST and the EM411 forums.