From setup design, it would be very useful to have defined standard. If someone receives in PM "Once you are eliminated, you may pick a person to roleblock them" they might be confused what elimination is. Thanks to standardization we can avoid misinterpretations, which have negative impact on games.
I mean I'll probably just stick with murder in my generic flavor
"With five alive it takes three to murder"
But I'm looking at mobbed as more a generic term to replace my use of lynch as a player, not a mod. ie, "WHAT THE FUCK YOU THINK YOU DOING I HAVENT BEEN MISELIMINATED IN EIGHT YEARS" doesn't have the same ring as "COME TAKE A SHOT AT THE BELT PUNK, I AINT BEEN MISMOBBED SINCE 2012"
In post 926, Kerset wrote:From setup design, it would be very useful to have defined standard. If someone receives in PM "Once you are eliminated, you may pick a person to roleblock them" they might be confused what elimination is. Thanks to standardization we can avoid misinterpretations, which have negative impact on games.
Precisely.
Casually removing an deeply ingrained word and then half-assedly suggesting people can maybe use: "eliminate" or whatever they feel like is going to generate a lot of confusion and misunderstanding throughout the site in many games. Which should really have been a higher priority for the moderation team to consider.
Rather than creating a wild texas we need a PROPOSED STANDARD new replacement word that doesn't SUCK.
Again, whether they are defacto effected officially or not doesn't really change that the community should also be making an effort to also change their language.
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
"Well, I..."
"What? Nothing? You would make the prince suffer over... nothing?"
In post 926, Kerset wrote:From setup design, it would be very useful to have defined standard. If someone receives in PM "Once you are eliminated, you may pick a person to roleblock them" they might be confused what elimination is. Thanks to standardization we can avoid misinterpretations, which have negative impact on games.
Precisely.
Casually removing an deeply ingrained word and then half-assedly suggesting people can maybe use: "eliminate" or whatever they feel like is going to generate a lot of confusion and misunderstanding throughout the site in many games. Which should really have been a higher priority for the moderation team to consider.
Rather than creating a wild texas we need a PROPOSED STANDARD new replacement word that doesn't SUCK.
In post 937, chamber wrote:Again, whether they are defacto effected officially or not doesn't really change that the community should also be making an effort to also change their language.
I agree, however, we've seen that there are some in the community that's willing to die on the hill of "mafia isn't worth playing if we have to use a slightly different word."
Also, there are people willing to claim they don't know what the racial connotations of the word are, but, I've already called them out for bad faith.
I've only made one good post, and don't you dare accuse me of doing it again.
There will probably be lots of corners cases that come up that haven't been thought of. Why are you bringing it up now? If it matters a mod can just ask their listmod.
In post 930, kuribo wrote:I mean I'll probably just stick with murder in my generic flavor
"With five alive it takes three to murder"
But I'm looking at mobbed as more a generic term to replace my use of lynch as a player, not a mod. ie, "WHAT THE FUCK YOU THINK YOU DOING I HAVENT BEEN MISELIMINATED IN EIGHT YEARS" doesn't have the same ring as "COME TAKE A SHOT AT THE BELT PUNK, I AINT BEEN MISMOBBED SINCE 2012"
"I haven't been miseliminated since i had surgery for my anal fissure"
Here's a list of terms that I'd like for the new term for town's method of removing slots from play:
Mob - A flavorful term that keeps the old term's meaning in spirit, it meshes very poorly with abbreviations however (as a standout example, Policy Mob would be PM!)
Eliminate - It's a flavorless term for voting out that isn't literally just voting out. It meshes well with abbreviations (I like ELo and MeLo). It is a little gameshow-esque however.
Vote Out - The least flavor possible while being unambiguous. It meshes okay with abbreviations. (VoLo and MoLo sound okay, MV maybe not) It is very gameshow-esque.
Exile - A flavorful term that is slightly less harsh. It meshes well with abbreviations as you can just use Eliminate's abbreviations. This is the ideal term afaik.
Throw Off - If you want an oddball term here is one. Not the best for abbreviations though.
If Eliminate weren't already standard Exile should be standard.
