On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Anna Simpson wrote: > Rachel Lee Cherry wrote: > > > LJ doesn't have anything like a drops bucket, so we're not > > arbitrarily renaming an existing thing, we're naming a new > > thing. > > I just dislike cutesy or themed names in general, because they > obscure meaning and they impose a non-neutral tone on a site. > Drops and buckets and rainbows and whatever makes me think of a > pink sparkly My Little Ponies themed site.
This. I like "points" just fine. I don't have to mentally convert whatever cute name it is to "points" or "credits" which is what we're really talking about. "Wishes" is so twee. Any "wish" you can buy for a dollar isn't much of a wish! (Also, "bucket" makes me think of That Walrus, idk, am I alone?) > It's like the asylums etc at InsaneJournal. It's possible to > work around the terms and ignore them, but I'd rather not have > to. Yes. That's particularly problematic because it's offensive to many people who are either mentally ill themselves or have friends who are, and see it as a slur against them, but it's annoying to have to remember that "asylum" is community and I always have to catch myself remembering to type "asylums" in urls instead of "community". I *like* pink and sparkly--notoriously so--but a lot of people don't. (When people say "14 year old girls of all ages" I know that I'm one of the people they're talking about; FFS, I like *Twilight*. And *Sailor Moon*.) But this is too pink and sparkly for me. I use the Lanzelot site scheme on LJ (the Russian one) and the Worksafe one on IJ because they are nice and neutral and borrrrring, so I only see the graphics I want to see. I know a lot of people love themes, but a lot of people don't, so we probably will have a theme. But let's make it unobtrusive so that we don't alienate as many people as we attract with it. **************************************************************** Azalais Aranxta (~malfoy) ataniell93 on LiveJournal and Vox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malfoymadness "I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it think we all bow down." --Christopher Fry _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
