Suggested feature - forum jargon buster

[robbins.photo]

Perhaps a year ago, I made a suggestion to the administrator that, when people registered, in their confirming email, they get a link to suggested stickies on definitions and how to upload pictures.

It seems a low enough bar to entry for newcomers that, in exchange for free information, they take the initiative to learn the few bits of language that are particular to photography.
If we pander to newbies by simplifying things even more, there is no end to how far we would need to go; instead of aperture, we could say 'hole in the end of the lens that light goes through' or instead of shutter speed we could say ' the amount of time the camera mechanism allows light to hit the sensor.'

Lew, you'll forgive me but I think perhaps your missing the point here - your assumption is that by making things easier and consolidating information in one place that is the only way a "newbie" can learn. It isn't. But it does make things easier and more convenient. Now, lets say for example I'm doing research on a topic and I want to go to the library. I can go to the tiny little library in my home town and get a limited amount of information, or I can go to a much larger library in a nearby city and have access to a lot more information. It just makes sense to me to go to the larger library with the additional resources.

If my local library is poorly organized and makes things difficult to find, well that's just another reason why I might choose to go to a different library for my research. Sure, I could try to become an expert in library science first so that I could find the information I needed even in a library that wasn't that well organized. But I might not really be all that interested in library science - I may really only have a serious passion or interest in the topic I'm researching. So why wouldn't I go to a library that is much easier to use and save myself the time?

The assumption that by choosing the easier to use, more convenient resource that makes a person lazy and unwilling to learn, sorry but that just doesn't follow at all.

 

[pgriz]

ah. The GWAC crowd uses GAS thinking it will improve their chances at attracting MILFs and WILFS (and GILFS, if you swing that way), forgetting that DIY methods using OCF and modifiers, can give better results. OTOH, YMMV. KWIM? Gr8!

oh, and don't mix your DOF with FOV because your DSLR isn't built that way.

 

[table1349]

This is going to be FUBAR AFF.

Now do you really want kiddies glossing over either FUBAR or AFF and having them expanded to full words??? The whole site would be NSFW and NSFC.

 

[Derrel]

"Ohhh My Gaaaawd--there is a flea on the cat! There's a friggen' flea on the cat! We HAVE TO go out and get a new cat! We've got a flea on the cat!"

Does anybody understand what I am alluding to here? Some people here appear to have been seriously distracted by ONE, single recent post, located elsewhere.

This is is is yet another TPF, imaginary, non-issue.

 

[robbins.photo]

"Ohhh My Gaaaawd--there is a flea on the cat! There's a friggen' flea on the cat! We HAVE TO go out and get a new cat! We've got a flea on the cat!"

Does anybody understand what I am alluding to here? Some people here appear to have been seriously distracted by ONE, single recent post, located elsewhere.

This is is is yet another TPF, imaginary, non-issue.

Ok.. great, but when do we get the new cat?

 

[Derrel]

We don't need a new cat.

 

[robbins.photo]

We don't need a new cat.

Big tease.. lol

 

[runnah]

"Ohhh My Gaaaawd--there is a flea on the cat! There's a friggen' flea on the cat! We HAVE TO go out and get a new cat! We've got a flea on the cat!"

Does anybody understand what I am alluding to here? Some people here appear to have been seriously distracted by ONE, single recent post, located elsewhere.

This is is is yet another TPF, imaginary, non-issue.

This is the world we live in. Entire societies have to change because of one idiot.

 

[table1349]

"Ohhh My Gaaaawd--there is a flea on the cat! There's a friggen' flea on the cat! We HAVE TO go out and get a new cat! We've got a flea on the cat!"

Does anybody understand what I am alluding to here? Some people here appear to have been seriously distracted by ONE, single recent post, located elsewhere.

This is is is yet another TPF, imaginary, non-issue.

That you don't take proper care of your animals by bathing them, getting them rabies shots and giving them the proper flea and tick medicine once a month. Geez Derrel, I thought better of you than that. G.I.W.F.W.

 

[Overread]

"Ohhh My Gaaaawd--there is a flea on the cat! There's a friggen' flea on the cat! We HAVE TO go out and get a new cat! We've got a flea on the cat!"

Does anybody understand what I am alluding to here? Some people here appear to have been seriously distracted by ONE, single recent post, located elsewhere.

This is is is yet another TPF, imaginary, non-issue.

Actually I was browsing a GW forum for 40K and the recent post simply reminded me of their use of key acronym descriptions. And if you think we've got a lot they've got a whole lot more in common use.


Also we're not getting a new cat, no one mentioned getting a new cat; we are just getting a new shiny thing to make the cat happy!

 

[robbins.photo]

"Ohhh My Gaaaawd--there is a flea on the cat! There's a friggen' flea on the cat! We HAVE TO go out and get a new cat! We've got a flea on the cat!"

Does anybody understand what I am alluding to here? Some people here appear to have been seriously distracted by ONE, single recent post, located elsewhere.

This is is is yet another TPF, imaginary, non-issue.

This is the world we live in. Entire societies have to change because of one idiot.

Yes.. in fact I recommend we dispose of all technology immediately and return to a completely agrarian society based on subsistence farming and barter. That way we never have to feel threatened by such crazy ideas.

 

[runnah]

Actually I was browsing a GW forum for 40K and the recent post simply reminded me of their use of key acronym descriptions. And if you think we've got a lot they've got a whole lot more in common use.

Good for you admitting that in public. That is the first step in recovery.

p.s. I didn't know what you mean't but I GOOGLED IT and found the answer right away.

 

[runnah]

Yes.. in fact I recommend we dispose of all technology immediately and return to a completely agrarian society based on subsistence farming and barter. That way we never have to feel threatened by such crazy ideas.

You would not believe that changes we've had to make around here for you...

 

[robbins.photo]

"Ohhh My Gaaaawd--there is a flea on the cat! There's a friggen' flea on the cat! We HAVE TO go out and get a new cat! We've got a flea on the cat!"

Does anybody understand what I am alluding to here? Some people here appear to have been seriously distracted by ONE, single recent post, located elsewhere.

This is is is yet another TPF, imaginary, non-issue.

Actually I was browsing a GW forum for 40K and the recent post simply reminded me of their use of key acronym descriptions. And if you think we've got a lot they've got a whole lot more in common use.


Also we're not getting a new cat, no one mentioned getting a new cat; we are just getting a new shiny thing to make the cat happy!

Well as for me I'd like the feature - at the moment when I go to answer a question if it's someone I haven't conversed with before and they ask something that requires me to explain things like DOF, etc - well I have to explain what DOF is, give them the abbreviation, and it makes for a lot of typing. But I at least try to give clear answers so I don't want them to have to go out and do a ton of additional searching so they can get a clue as to what I'm talking about.

A feature like that would let me give much more concise answers without having to repeat a lot of information in another thread to answer a similar question. So yes, I like the idea.

 

[robbins.photo]

Yes.. in fact I recommend we dispose of all technology immediately and return to a completely agrarian society based on subsistence farming and barter. That way we never have to feel threatened by such crazy ideas.

You would not believe that changes we've had to make around here for you...

Oh sure, but the minute we start talking about finally getting a new cat, you #@$@$#@ all bail on me.. lol