(Sec2)Forum Terms are terms that have been used frequently on the Forum at one point or another.
NOTES:- This section deals with basic terms that may benefit newer users with functions of the Forum.
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AAAARRRRRGGGGLLLBLBLLBLBL!!!:The HRWiki catch-phrase; the top dog; the big cheese. Coined by AgentSeethroo. Literally, the noise of screaming and vomiting from fear. This phrase occurred mainly after the following dialogue:
PRIMARY SOURCE, CHILD! wrote:
There's nobody [verb]-ing that [noun]!
AAAARRRRRGGGGLLLBLBLLBLBL!!! -ing will then occur.
Oh, and yes, that's how you spell it. Special Points +3
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How do you pronounce AAAARRRRRGGGGLLLBLBLLBLBL!!!?Acronyms:While not created specifically at the Forum, there are several key acronyms that are brought up from time-to-time whose meanings may not be perfectly understood.
WTF: What The "F"
GTFO: Get The "F" Out
GTFI: Get The "F" In
FTW: For The Win
FTL: For The Lose (Loss)
LOL: Laugh[ing] Out Loud
IIRC: If I Remember Correctly
IMHO: In My [Honest] Opinion
IRL: [In] Real Life
CGI: Computer-Generated Imagery
FMV: Full-Motion Video
B&: Banned
gb2w: Get Back To Work
tl;dr: Too long; didn't read.
LMAO: Laugh My "Arse" Off
LMBO: Laugh My Butt Off (for the gentlemen)
Administrators / ModeratorsAdministrators and moderators (sometimes combined to be called "Modmins") are the authority of the Forum. They help in conflicts, and can perform numerous actions to the Forum to make it a cleaner and better place. To distinguish themselves from other users, they have "titles" (or "ranks")--a small blurb of text--above their avatars. When the Forum was on phpBB2 software, their username colors within topics were the same color as other users'. With the upgrade to phpBB3 on January 5, 2007, their username colors became the same color within topics as everywhere else on Forums (red or green).
Moderators are the lower authority for the Forum. Unlike administrators, moderators can only moderate specific boards to keep the work load down on them. While they have authority throughout the entire forum, they can lock topics, merge similar topics, move topics to different forums, and edit users' posts in their assigned forums. The moderators were given more authority in December of 2007, when they were assigned to one of two different Mod Groups (whose names were planned to change periodically).
On February 17, 2008, the moderators were all assigned to one global moderator group by the name of Parliament-Funkadelic (friggin' finally...). This announcement came with the epic locking of Random Thoughts and the posts of only moderators in it...that is, until ramrod screwed it all up. Beyond the Grave was promoted to a moderator shortly after the establishment of this new moderator group. On March 4, 2008, Shwoo was promoted to being a moderator (friggin' finally...).
Administrators are the higher authority for the forum. They can do everything that moderators can do, along with access the Administration Panel, a place that lets them edit the entire makeup of the Forum. Certain administrators also have FTP access for the Forum.
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Admin TeamParliament-FunkadelicAnnouncements / Stickies: Announcements are vital information regarding forums, and appear at the very top of every section (the icon next to them looks like
). Announcements are generally used for the rules of this Forum, though they can also be used for important events.
Stickies are important topics for the section they are posted under (the icon next to them looks like
).
Alpacas:Alpacas are a source of evil to the Forum. On March 13, 2008, three alpacas were discovered in the HR Wiki Forum server room that were apparently the cause to the Forum becoming "screwed up" (a word filter had actually been established to change "Homestar Runner" to "Strongstar Runbadder"). Admins Joey Day and StrongRad attempted to chase them out with a broom, but the nasty critters retaliated by spitting back at them.
In response to this, the administrative duo decided to attempt to flood the server room with hoses, which would in-turn flood the servers themselves and put out the firewall. The alpacas refused to be defeated though, as they drank up all of the water. What's worse was that the breed of alpacas were endangered species, and Joey Day had forgotten to sign a 404 Permit, so another solution had to be found yet again. StrongRad finally sent in Lee Marvin. He took care of everything.
In late April, it was discovered that ramrod was behind the appearance of the alpacas, as they were stuffed into numerous boxes that were blocking the doorway to the Forum. He was later sentenced to being shot for his wrongdoings. This action was never carried out. >: (
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What in the world is an alpaca!?StrongRad's announcement about the alpaca problem.Lee Marvin took care of them.The boxes contained alpacas.Anti-Moron FeatureThe anti-moron feature is a nickname given to a new feature of the Forum with the upgrade to phpBB3. Its purpose is to notify you about any replies that were submitted to the Forum during the time you were making a post. Instead of the post submitting to the topic, you'll be brought back to your posting screen with a list of new replies to the topic.
This feature was originally seen as annoying, but eventually grew on users to be useful during intense conversations.
Auto-pruning:Auto-pruning is a function of phpBB software that existed on the Forum back in the Summer of 2005. Because the Forum Games section was bursting with posts (it had the highest number of posts for any Forum section at the time), the administrators decided to enable this feature to delete any topics not posted in for two weeks. The first response to this was confusion--the users of the forum had no idea why their older posts in the section were deleted. When the administrators explained what had happened, the users became upset. After a couple months of negativity towards the feature, it was disabled and has yet to return.
Avatar/Signature ComboA similarly-themed avatar and signature used by a user at the same time. The Noid is notable for using Eisenhower, Obama, and Joker avatar/sig combos, with the avatar showing a zoomed out view of the people, and the signature showing an insanely zoomed in view of the person's eyes. Many of the avatar/signature combos are designed to creep out users.
Average User Rating of the Forum:The Average User Rating of the Forum is the average score that the users have all given the Forum. While there is a thread dedicated to it in Suggestions, it has its issues of users voting and never coming back to the thread. To counteract this, MikeMcG is implementing an Average User Rating and voting feature into his Greasemonkey script for the Forum.
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Your overall opinion of the Forum and its insanity.Bagged Milk:Bagged milk is what it exactly sounds like: milk in a bag. Used regularly on the Forum for a short period of time; still brought up from time-to-time. Canada apparently uses this type of milk a lot.
Bampire:The word "vampire" when said by an extremely frightened person.
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First AppearanceBannination:Describing being banned from the Wiki and/or Forum. Coined by Naked_Lunch, derived from Trogdor at homestarrunner.com.
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First AppearanceBAAAW!:Complaining n' such. BAAAW!
BB Code:BB Code is a markup language used on many message boards. It is simple to learn and use, and can change the way your posts are interpreted through the use of bolding, italicizing, underlining, coloring, and resizing text. With BB Code, you can also post links, add images, and more.
Botfriend:Referred to user ModestlyHotGirl's boyfriend, Jeff.
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First AppearanceBrokeback Futon:Coined by StrongRad, made known by himself, InterruptorJones and Beyond the Grave. It's pretty much what it sounds like: a futon upon which two or more males sleep. Great.
Canadiennes:Coined by AgentSeethroo. Refers to ModestlyHotGirl and Dark Grapefruit, Canadian moderators. Canadians in-general are special in the Forum, as Canada is cooler than America.
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First AppearanceModestlyHotGirlDark GrapefruitDouble Post:A double post are two posts by the same user that are back-to-back, meaning that there are no replies by other users between them. Double posts that are less than three hours apart in a thread are against the rules. You have the ability to edit a post as much as you want, so any additional information you'd like to add to a topic can easily be edited into posts if nobody else has posted after you.
Conga Rats:Coined by ModestlyHotGirl. An award given out to users during iSketch games. Conga Rats are "Congrats", but they're also conga-ing rats.
'd!:A suffix added to pretty much anything to show an action. Derived from Teen Girl Squad on the Homestar Runner website.
Examples: "LOCK'd!", "SIMULPOST'd!", "KILL'd!", "[anything else]'d!"
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Teen Girl SquadDralankers:Coined by Douglas, an award bequeathed upon exceptional people or comics. Awarded to Acekirby for Forum'D! (a comic), and Didymus for his novel.
Drama:Drama is the general term used to describe many of the hardships the Forum users face towards one-another. While drama is common in many message boards, the HR Wiki Forum is known to have many notable cases of it. It normally occurs for the silliest of reasons.
Dwight D. Eisenhower:Some famous dude who I don't wish to study up on. The Noid used him in his first avatar/sig combo, which was enough to freak out some users, including JoeyDay (the creator of this place). At one point in time, The Noid quoted the entire Wikipedia article for Dwight D. Eisenhower to explain who he was. For the sake of keeping the material in this thing a quick breeze to read through, I will not quote it.
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Wikipedia knows who Dwight D. Eisenhower is.JoeyDay is freaked out by the signature.Emoticons:An emoticon, otherwise known as a "smiley", is an image used to display a specific emotion. The H*R Wiki Forum uses a combination of the standard phpBB 2.0 emoticons, several edited icons from the phpBB set, and numerous Homestar Runner-based ones.
The Forum emoticons as of June 2008On May 24, 2006, the Senor Cardgage emoticon was
added by the administration team. On May 28, 2006, InterruptorJones announced and later released his
Custom Greasemonkey Emoticon script for the Forum. Sometime in the later half of 2007, the Stinkoman emoticon was added.
Facepalm:A "facepalm" is pretty much an acted out version of the word "Ugh..." It involves placing one's hand over their face in disbelief for somebody saying something either incredibly obvious or stupid for the moment. Usually used with an image, but sometimes just shown as *facepalm*. Facepalms were used quite extensively for a period of time, sometimes aggravating the admins and mods. Their use has since become a tiny bit less common.
Folding Chair of Thwacky [+3]An instrument of punishment used by user Didymus. It is a folding chair that Didymus smacked people with after they did something unacceptable. Sometimes the suffix [+3] was added in because A) the unacceptable action was really lame, and/or B ) RPGs are sometimes fun.
Forum Insanity Level:The Forum Insanity Level is a scale developed by MikeMcG and DS_Kid to measure the amount of drama and overall "insanity" currently going on for the Forum. Any user is allowed to vote in it, but not voting every few days will result in your vote entering a "cool down" phase where it'd going down the scale towards "Calm". We recommend voting at least twice a week to have more accurate results.
Just click on the Insanity Level you think the Forum is currently at to vote. You may re-vote as much as you'd like:
The Current Insanity Level of the Forum Is:
MikeMcG is currently developing a Greasemonkey script that will incorporate the Forum Insanity Level in it.
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Your overall opinion of the Forum and its insanity.Forumopolis:Forumopolis is the name given to the city that the users of the Forum apparently live in. It first appeared in one of Jitka's locations, and it's now commonplace. It is usually used to describe a nation or city in just about every Forumfic or Forum Comic, though its popularity is on a constant decline.
Forum RPG:Forum RPG was a role-playing computer game created by Douglas back in September of 2005 with RPG Maker. It was a fairly detailed game, even if it didn't use any custom-made graphic assets. The game put you in the role of several of the Forum's more popular users at the time, include Ace and Teff.
An hour or so into the game, there was an error in the placement of one of the game's bridges that prevented the user from continuing forward in the level. Douglas never fixed the error or completed the game due to the game's file being too large to fit through an email attachment.
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The earliest mention of the game.Friends / FoesIn phpBB3, users can choose to mark members as friends or foes under each user's profile or in the User Control Panel. Users marked as "friends" can be selected from a user list to be contacted via Private Message easier. Users marked as "foes" will have all of their posts hidden from you, and their Private Messages will be blocked from your Inbox.
Gabbly:Gabbly is chatting interface much like IRC, except that it is built into the webpage that you're viewing (in the case of this Forum, the Forum's main page). It required the web browser Mozilla Firefox in order to run properly, and is barely used nowadays.
Go to Page:In phpBB3, users are able to select which page number in a large thread they'd like to go to. Before, in phpBB2, users would have to click through each page manually to get to one near the center of the thread, causing frustration. ed 'lim' smilde created a Firefox Modification long ago that could let you select any page in a thread, but it does not function in phpBB3.
Greasemonkey Scripts:If you have Firefox, then you should definitely have the
Greasemonkey Add-On. Greasemonkey allows you to upload custom user scripts to extend certain parts of Firefox. Here are notable Greasemonkey scripts meant for the Forum or something related to it:
- MikeMcG's Forum Insanity and Rating Script (tentative): This script, once complete, will allow users to view and vote for the Insanity Level and User Rating for the Forum from the comfort of the posting page.
- Philip's Homestar All-in-One Script: This script will allow you to extend your Homestar-viewing experience immensely. The script allows you to watch Homestar toons in fullscreen, toggle where you would like to go in the toon with a seek bar, play and pause the toon, view Wiki links to the toons, etc.
- The Dynamic Forum Emoticon Script: This script will allow you to add and upload your own, custom emoticons to the Forum for easy access and use.
HRWiki Forum Bible:The HRWiki Forum Bible was a creation by Acekirby that covered all major topics of the Forum at the time, including the Baby Strongbad fad, the SCARMY, AAAARRRRRGGGGLLLBLBLLBLBL!!!, and the Yar vs. Yarr debate. While it was deleted in The Purge, it was revived by user Strongfan only to be met with negativity (Ace wouldn't have the ability to edit it with new information since Strongfan recreated it). Acekirby may or may not make another version of the Bible in the future.
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The HRWiki Forum Bible brought back after The Purgeikiteffkirbyjitkawhatsit and fuhbuh tooThe name given to the Forum's group of fourteen year olds during 2005. Altogether, the group contained iKipapa, The Experimental Film, Acekirby, Jitka, and Firebird. I don't think the "Whatsit" stood for anybody.
InvisitextInvisitext is text that appears invisible in a post until it is either highlighted or quoted by a user. The process to doing this is quite simple:
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If you are making an odd-numbered post in a thread:
[color=#ececec]<insert Invisitext here>[/color]
If you are making an even-numbered post in a thread:
[color=#dce1e5]<insert Invisitext here>[/color]
Please note that overusing Invisitext, or using it in places where more important information is required, can be frowned upon. Otherwise, you're A-OK.
IRC:The IRC is a chat channel on the main Homestar Runner Wiki that was once used for Forum-related events. (Chat channel parties were sometimes held on Mondays and Fridays at specific times, and were usually stated along the top of the Wiki's main page). The IRC was also used during The Purge and at the end of specific Forum Awards for discussions and award ceremonies.
From late 2006 to early 2008, the IRC had phased out of existence in the eyes of most Forum users, and for a brief period of time, was replaced by another chatting program called Gabbly. On June 5, 2008, the Forum attempted to "take back" the IRC room #hrwiki out of nostalgia. However, the chat room had completely different standards when compared to how they were used during chat parties in 2005 and 2006. "Flooding" (replying frequently) was considered a violation of the chat room rules, which eventually spawned the briefly-used chat room phrase "TALK SLOWER!" (and its variations).
A compromise of using the chat room #hrwiki-forum was eventually met, but as of June 2008, it has still not been linked to in the chat.hrwiki.org page. The #hrwiki-forum chat room quickly lost popularity after a chat room was created for Serious, Inc.
iSketchiSketch was a popular Flash-based internet game played by members from 2005 to 2007, though it then became very unpopular. It is Pictionary, but online! This game was actually quite fun, and took many hours of peoples' lives away. It was revived on March 22, 2008 by ten or so bored people, and it has yet to be revived again. Maybe people should care about this little ol' game more.
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iSketchKidlet Forest:Coined by Queenie-C. Refers to an island forest, where male minors are sent when they lech (see below) an older female. Sometimes called "enchanted kidlet forest". A couple "Lech Licenses" were handed out early in its existence that allowed for certain minors to lech.
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First AppearanceKidlette Forest:Coined by The Experimental Film. Refers to another forest where female minors are sent for leching.
LACROSSE:LACROSSE should definitely be the primary sport of the Forum. Sure, you may want Little Billy-Sue to play baseball or hopscotch, but lacrosse is infinitely better. Two members play this marvelous sport on the Forum: Disk and Ace. Disk will probably not be playing lacrosse regularly anymore due to being lazy.
It should definitely be noted that not only did this come from SI (Serious, Inc.), but that it also has strict guidelines for its usage. Just about every time the word "lacrosse" is mentioned, it should be posted like this:
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[size=200][color=#FF0000][b][u][i]LACROSSE[/i][/u][/b][/color][/size]
Of course, if you post like that too many times, we may have to kick you in the teeth.
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First appearance that nobody cares aboutFirst use of formattingNinti hurts herself D:Disk showing how to be epic with lacrosseLech:Coined by InterruptorJones. "To lech" means "to compliment someone on their hotness". The "bases" are commonly used while describing leching. The pronunciation is sometimes debated between "lek" (to rhyme with "heck") or "letch" (to rhyme with "fetch"). The emoticon sometimes used with this is
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First AppearanceLurk:To lurk means to only browse through message board content and never regularly post. Lurkers are people who lurk.
"Lurk moar" is a common internet phrase that means to read up on an internet-related subject that you may not be aware of.
Merge:The ability to merge posts can be done by both administrators and moderators. If a topic has been brought up in the past on the Forum, the posts within it will sometimes be combined with the older, larger topic. Merged posts are sorted by their posting time in the new thread.
Modmins:A term used to describe both the admins and mods at the same time. They're kinda combined together...admins...mods...mod-mins...see?
PantsBack in 2005, Dark Grapefruit had an obsession with pants. Whenever a new user would join, their pants had a 99.9% chance of being taken.
Phantom Pages:Phantom pages were pages made up of no posts, usually caused by the deletion or moving of a post into or out of a thread. They were all too common back in the old days (especially in the Random Thoughts thread), and began to get annoying after awhile. Since the upgrade to phpBB3, they have not been acknowledged.
phpBB2:phpBB2 was a message board system created by the phpBB Group in 2001. phpBB2 was also used by the Homestar Runner Wiki Forum from May 9, 2004 (its creation) to January 5, 2007. An image of phpBB2 as run by the Forum can be found
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phpBB3:phpBB3 is a message board system created by the phpBB Group in 2007, and is currently used by the Homestar Runner Wiki Forum (January 5, 2008 - ). A rundown of the update process to phpBB3 for this Forum, as well as numerous images on the event, can be found
here. (LANGUAGE WARNING)
Private Message (PM): A Private Message is a message that can only be read by the user who it is sent to--it is the email system of message boards. Messages can be of any length below 60,000 characters, and can be about nearly any subject. Private Message space is limited, though. Users may only have:
- 50 messages in their Inbox.
- 50 messages in their Outbox (messages that have been sent out but have not been read)
- 50 messages in their Sentbox (messages that have been sent out and read)
- 50 saved messages.
In phpBB2, users could only store 25 messages in their Sentbox. It was an unintentional change to bring the number up to 50.
Quote PyramidsQuote pyramids refer to an issue that occurred on the phpBB2 software that the Forum used to run on. When you embedded a large amount of [
quote] tags within each other for a post, the Forum's tables and styles would basically stop functioning for everything below the quote. (If anybody has an image of this occurring on phpBB2 software, please show it to me).
The first instance of this unintentionally occurred in an old version of the "ACT LIEK A N00B" thread in Forum Games back around early 2006. Users continuously quoted each message above them until the Forum "broke". Much later down the line--around mid-2007--admins and mods would replace any developing quote pyramids with an image of a pyramid.
Thanks to phpBB3 software, no more than three quotes may be embedded within each other, defeating any chance of a quote pyramid breaking the layout of the Forum again.
Ramrod's HairBack in 2005, Ramrod apparently had tons of hair--like--miles worth of it. Dark Grapefruit liked living in this hair until he shaved it off. Sadness ensued.
Rank/Title:Ranks (or more commonly known as "Titles") are little blurbs of text that are above a user's avatar. On this Forum, you may only receive a rank or title in a special situation. Examples of these situations include, but are not limited to, becoming an administrator or moderator, being a retired administrator or moderator, or having it given you as a "gift".
Ranks are given as "gifts" during special events or occasions. For example, the user iand93 received the title "Secret Santa Rank!" after the 2nd Annual H*R Wiki Forum Secret Santa Exchange. Another example is when COLA helped out with the April Fools '08 event with the admins and mods.
Random ThoughtsRandom Thoughts, originally called "Random Thoughts or Ideas", was introduced to the Forum by Hi Guys on April 4, 2006. In a nutshell, it is the heart of all activity on the Forum, generating ideas that are normally too limited in perspective to be turned into actual threads (though some threads, such as one about guitar discussion, were formed from it). Just about anything goes in the thread, as topics of discussion can be about nearly everything.
Many issues have formed throughout Random Thoughts. Drama used to occur often in the thread, and it has been locked several times to allow users to cool down. In the past, many users wanted the thread to be permanently locked to allow new threads to be made more often and to limit down on drama. As a way to let more creative threads to be made, the mods locked Random Thoughts from June 3, 2008 to June 10, 2008. It succeeded.
Sometime around late 2007, subtitles to "Random Thoughts" were added to the thread title and changed every few days. This has continued to this day.
RoffleDerived from ROFL (Rolling On the Floor Laughing); what ROFL sounds like spelled out.
Rotator:A Rotator is a series of avatars or signatures that change after a different page is viewed or when the page is refreshed. These are good for the users who would like to have more than one avatar or signature at a time, or who cannot fit an animated avatar or signature to the rule requirements. Please note that all avatars and signatures in the rotators must be within the rule limits.
With the upgrade to phpBB3, rotating avatars have encountered a glitch that will automatically resize all images in the rotator to the largest image's size. This can be fixed by resizing all of the avatars to the same dimension.
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How to Get a Rotating Avatar or SignatureSCARMY:Coined by DanBo. StrongCanada's personal army, included most of the active forumgoers. There were three major divisions of it: the SCARMY (obviously), the SCAR Naval, and the SCAIR Force. This was the original army, all of the others were copies of it.
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StrongCanadaSerious, Inc.Serious, Inc. on the Homestar Runner Wiki Forums was a group that was formed when drama began erupting in the 2007 Wiki Forum Awards. While drama occurs in all of the more-recent Forum Awards over nominations and votes, this one was special.
Serious, Inc. later became the name to Jello B's website, formerly known as the HRWFWF (Homestar Runner Wiki Forum Wiki Forum).
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The 2007 Forum Serious AwardsSerious, Inc. (RATED R, KIDDOS!)
Sign PicsSign Pics were a popular concept introduced to the Forum in 2005. Users were encouraged to post pictures of themselves holding up pieces of paper with messages written on them, either starting a conversation with them, or just giving random shout-outs to users or things. Their popularity declined by around 2007, and the thread has yet to be revived post-Purge.
SimulpostCoined by Didymus. Refers to simultaneous posting of the same general post. With the upgrade to phpBB3, the "Anti-Moron feature" was added to help prevent simulposting (see its entry for more details).
Sisterhood:Coined by Queenie-C, proper name: The HRWiki Sisterhood. A group of female users, including every single woman/girl on the Forum. They were pretty powerful back in the day.
Shadow Topics:Shadow topics are threads that have been moved to a new section, yet stay in its original section with the word "Moved" next to them. Moderators have the option of turning this feature on or off. The main reason for shadow topics is to let users know that a thread has moved to a new section, and that it has not randomly disappeared.
Split:To split a topic means to separate some of its posts to different topics. This can sometimes be used for separate discussions that appear within topics.
Strawberries:Coined by Chekt; first used with its true definition by Acekirby. Strawberries is an alternative word to "having sexual intercourse." It can also be used to describe something good or sexy.
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The post that started it all.OH, THAT ACE!First post with only "strawberries" in it.Stu's Backyard:Stu's Backyard was once a very common location for HR Wiki Forum residents. It is apparently very large on the internet (many locations have shown it to hold numerous things), though nonexistant in real life (Stu's secret hideout is in an apartment). The fad of a location involving this has died down over time.
Summer of '05The Summer of 2005 on the HR Wiki Forum has been said to be the greatest time period before any "e-Drama" occurred. Cool members were apparent. People were happy. I was happy. Your neighbors were happy. There were no bomb threats. No murders. Nothing but absolute happiness. Though there were a few trolls...
The Summer of 2006 was also pretty neat. Anything past that was lame though. Admit it.
ADMIT IT! Users are hoping that the Summer of 2008 revives the Forum to its once-great glory.
TELL WHAT U THINK!:"Tell What U Think!" was a fad started by Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest and popularized by InterruptorJones, StrongRad, and Acekirby nearly a year afterward (though COLA did not like relating his original thread with the fad). Many people posted avatars, banners, locations, etc., that said "TELL WHAT U THINK!" in one way or another. As Dark Grapefruit described long ago, it's this Forum's version of All Your Base--neither have a distinct definition, but they both caught on quickly. It started in March of 2006, and was quite popular for several months.
The only way to have truly said it was "TELL WHAT U THINK!" Any other spelling was wrong and resulted in being thrown off a skyscraper.
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Harry Potter Books debate: TELL WHAT U THINK!"Tell What U Think!"The Dress:The Dress is the name of an image that Ramrod posted back in 2005 of him in a dress. It was made as part of a bet by ThatCinnamonRolls (I think that was the user, anybody want to correct me?). The posting of this image freaked many users out, and was brought up repeatedly in the future months and years. Ramrod eventually got annoyed over it being brought up so many times.
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The Popular Search Engine Google:Coined by Tom. Refers to Google, a popular search engine. Didymus had strict standards on how to color it (
Google, foo'). Elected President of the HRWiki Forum long ago.
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The Popular Search Engine GoogleThe PurgeThe day the
music forum "died". On August 17, 2007, user Jello B hacked into moderator Modestly Hot Girl's account and deleted all of the topics in the Getting to Know You and Arts and Crafts sections, along with numerous topics in Off Subject Discussion. The Forum was filled with epic confusion and fear during this time, and the servers slowed to a halt for several hours. People jumped into AIM and the IRC to discuss the issue.
Popular topics that were deleted included Random Thoughts or Ideas, How ya' Feelin'?, The Banner and Avatar Force, and Guitar Hero Discussion. Since this event, most older forum threads have been revived and Jello B has been permanently banned.
The aftermath of this event is known as the Great Forum Depression.
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Didymus ExplainsToastpaint:Coined by AgentSeethroo. Meaning: a non sequitur used to steer straying threads back on topic. Started the craze of quoting people in signatures when Dark Grapefruit used it. Saying nothing except "Toastpaint" in one post is generally frowned upon, and may be considered spam. The emoticon sometimes used for toastpaint is
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First AppearanceTOTPD!!!:"
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Dance". Traditionally, it's the exclamation placed at the end of the 31st post and every 30th post thereafter (for the math challenged, every first post of a new page). Commonly followed by an Eek Dance ( ::eekdance:: ), though modern times have brought along numerous other humorous dancing animations. User futuramaooy brought it here from a Futurama message board called PEEL (Planet Express Employee Lounge).
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PEEL, the Forum it came from.Troll; TrollingTrolling means to post on a message board to cause trouble. For instance, a user may make negative posts to other users or try to steer the topic at hand in a different direction. A troll is a user who trolls. Interesting.
User Control Panel:Also known as the UCP. This is a new feature to phpBB3 that allows users to customize their interface to their liking (though it was modified heavily from a specific function in phpBB2). From here, users can PM others, add or remove friends/foes, edit their time/date options, edit their avatars/signatures, etc; there's a whole bunch to check out in there.
Usergroups:Usergroups, while more frequently discussed on other message boards, is simply on this Forum to signify the level of authority on this Forum. Administrators, moderators, moderator groups, and regular users each have their own groups. When phpBB3 was established for the first time on the Forum, COLA decided to add himself to the administrator group, resulting in the admins disabling the Forum for nearly an hour.
On June 21, 2008, when the color of usernames was changed for users by Stu, each user's color was assigned to a hidden usergroup. Deep Blue was also an available username color to a usergroup.
Everyone should have joined Deep Blue.Username:A username is your own, personal name for the Forum. It can be anything you'd like, as long as it's rule-friendly. On January 8, 2006, usernames could no longer be changed once they were registered. Before then, usernames were sometimes changed on a regular basis to celebrate holidays or related events. With the new rule in place, it became much easier to know who each user was without their name changing regularly.
On June 21, 2008, Stu gave anybody who wanted one a colored username to try and get some silly point across. They were removed the next day by ramrod.
Waberoffle:When something is
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roffle. Coined by StrongCanada and StrongRad.
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First Non-Chat AppearanceWikipedia Knows:Coined by InterruptorJones. Refers to the Wikipedia having all the answers. It doesn't.
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WikipediaWord Filter:The word filter of the Forum censors most of the naughty words with other words. Exceptions from this filter are "damn" and "hell".
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The Homestar Runner WikiH*R Wiki Forum FAQH*R Wiki Forum RulesYar:The sound effect that pirates make often. Coined by The Experimental Film. He used to believe that it should be a secondary Wiki catchphrase. Originally derived from pirate-speak and 8-Bit Theater. There used to be debates over which spelling (Yar or Yarr) was correct.
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8-Bit TheaterGoogle Fights' Opinion on the Matter.Yarr:The sound effect that pirates make often. Coined by ramrod. He used it more than Teff used "Yar", so it's become far more well-known. There used to be debates over which spelling (Yar or Yarr) was correct.
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Google Fights' Opinion on the Matter."You know we have a Wiki, right?":Coined by JoeyDay. Used when a person asks a question that is easily found on the Homestar Runner Wiki. If used, it is always appreciated if you link to the page being discussed instead of a link to the Wiki main page.
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