Getting back into full time community management was easy. Actually, kind of embarrassingly easy. I swore I would never personally care (as opposed to professionally organizing and conveying feedback) about the mechanics of crowd control ever again. And yet here I am, having long InternetIsSeriousBusiness conversations about immunity timers as if I’d never left.
This is either the most ridiculous way for a grown woman to make a living, or the most awesome. Possibly both.
Anyway, the thing with the steepest learning curve is the freakin’ acronyms. It’s not that they change, exactly, but new acronyms do come into play over the course of years. Twice now I’ve found myself frantically googling an acronym, muttering to myself, googling a second time with +MMO at the end, and then staring in horror at a few dozen completely contradictory links. The meaning changes depending on which game the player is “from,” and in order to do a good job, I’ll need to keep that in mind. It’s awfully like the word “fanny.” The different meanings aren’t terribly far apart, as it were, but in the context of… player versus player contact, you reeeeeeeeeeally need to know which fanny you and the other player are talking about before you issue/accept any invitations to duel.
That’s not thing making me QQ the most. The seven (the eighth one got here too recently, sorry) of you might remember that three plus years ago, I posted something about my personal life. Well, he’s starting to read. Mainly the internet catches his attention when it types in all caps. Sometimes, I’ll think the toy train session is in full swing and I’ll start reading a message board, and then I hear a little piping voice carefully read out “W…T…F.” I turn around to find the Ninja Preschooler standing there at my elbow with a big grin, and then he capers off chanting “WTF! WTF! WTF!”
Which, really, is one of the saner reactions to the internet.
It’s the most awesome
and if you didn’t personally care about your product I’d be worried
IDK, I think you’ll be A-OK. Ninja Preschooler, hee!
Also much more understandable in a toddler than in, say, 4chan or Reddit, who are equally prone to the same sort of thing.
I cant help but chuckle at the WTFing. I’d worry when it starts getting used in context.
First rule of parenting … say nothing in front of the kid that you don’t want repeated to grandma.
… ok, maybe it’s just one rule of parenting, not the first …
Well you could prompt the ninja to say something else…
http://youtu.be/_1VgJfiZISc
It’s good that you’re concerned with how you do your job/life… means you ARE concerned.
It’s not like you’re standing on a chair and letting us know what a bunch of nutless arsemunchers we are.
It’s amazing how fast they pick up the expletives. Mine started shouting “Jackass!” at people who cut me off on the road about age 3. Coincidentally, that was when I decided to severely prune my vocabulary for a while…
“Which, really, is one of the saner reactions to the internet.”
QFT
I took me forever to get straight whether I should be “LFT” “LFG” or “LFF” in each of the three games I was playing for a while….
My brain is now full and every new acronym pushes an old one out. Or possibly an old joke, drink recipe, or critical engineering formula I need for work today (roll d4 to determine).
-Tom
Actually, I’ve been a long time reader, but just got around to setting up a feed subscription.
I quite enjoy the acronyms that have multiple meanings. PST is “Please Send Tell” or “Private Send Tell” or “Pacific Standard Time”?
/shout WTS GBS PST or WTT
GCD. Greatest Common Denominator?
Even once you figure out what it means, rather, what it stands for, then what does it MEAN?
NEW, BBIAB. TTFN.
-perfect
I’ve been digging through Global Cool Down. Oy.
When I read acronyms, I mentally pronounce the entire word strings.
So my brain read ‘Want to sell Glowing Black Stone, please send tell (or want to trade)’.
and it wasn’t until I thus mentally ‘heard’ the term ‘Glowing Black Stone’ that I wondered if that was what you intended….
…especially since I haven’t encountered GBS (and thus haven’t mentally heard it) due to not encountering it in a WTS /shout in over a decade. Hi there, EC tunnel. Long time no see!
I think I’m weird, though. I don’t use acronyms much. Oh, sure, I do ‘AFK’ if I need to get away from the computer really quickly, and I’ve had my share of WTF moments. But I don’t even LOL, I’d rather type out a ‘hah’ sound that fits the laughter I’m experiencing (since I don’t laugh in text unless I really am laughing). Mostly it’s because I’m actually repulsed by what was originally called (in a very derogatory way) ‘AOL speak’ (though I have no idea why it was called that in the first place), and then got even more popular due to texting. By that I mean the whole use of the letter ‘u’ to stand for the word ‘you’, and other lazy abbreviations. Maybe I just like words too much to abuse them in such ways? I dunno. Not sure what that even has to do with acronyms, just that my brain has tied it together somehow. Brains can be weird things, I suppose.
“This is either the most ridiculous way for a grown woman to make a living, or the most awesome. Possibly both.”
i lol’d