To whoever controls the acronym mouse over

[MatthewJHanson]

First of all, thank you for the acronym mouse over feature. I appreciate the hard work you put into the site.

However I do not think the mouse over for PEACH is appropriate. One of the things I enjoy about EN World is that it is slightly more civilized than many sights out there, and I don't think it is in the spirit of the site to insult somebody for using an acronym that you do like. If you don't want the mouse over to explain the actual meaning (which I don't actually know) then please just ignore it.

Thanks.

 

[Piratecat]

I don't actually know the acronym either, but that strikes me as pretty funny.

 

[amethal]

First of all, thank you for the acronym mouse over feature. I appreciate the hard work you put into the site.

However I do not think the mouse over for PEACH is appropriate. One of the things I enjoy about EN World is that it is slightly more civilized than many sights out there, and I don't think it is in the spirit of the site to insult somebody for using an acronym that you do like. If you don't want the mouse over to explain the actual meaning (which I don't actually know) then please just ignore it.

Thanks.

I'd agree with you, except this is about PEACH. PEACH must die.

If you knew what PEACH was, you might well agree with us.

EDIt And hopefully you'll never know, since we ain't telling.

 

[TarionzCousin]

I'd agree with you, except this is about PEACH. PEACH must die.

If you knew what PEACH was, you might well agree with us.

EDIt And hopefully you'll never know, since we ain't telling.

I'll reveal the magician's secret:

[sblock]PEACH means: "I deserve to be banned for using this stupid acronym." Now you know![/sblock]

 

[fba827]

The only place I've actually seen it is the WotC forums, used by people trying to mix-max out their character for every last +1 they can squeeze. I have yet to see it used in an actual non min-max-to-the-extreme-situation (*not saying there aren't less extreme threads with it used, just saying i haven't seen any).

As to what it means (sorry for giving away secrets), PEACH = "Please Evaluate And Critique Honestly" -- or at least that is what I saw one person say it meant.

 

[evileeyore]

As to what it means (sorry for giving away secrets), PEACH = "Please Evaluate And Critique Honestly" -- or at least that is what I saw one person say it meant.

That is what it means and using it in this forum is an "insult to this forum", as the forum community stands for "critizising honestly". **






** Or so I'm told. I have different theories about what the forum has become.

 

[Thanee]

The bigger problem with the acronyms is, that they are not case-sensitive.

A peach isn't the same as PEACH.

And Dmg or dmg (common abbreviation for Damage) surely does not mean the same as DMG.

Bye
Thanee

 

[MatthewJHanson]

The only place I've actually seen it is the WotC forums, used by people trying to mix-max out their character for every last +1 they can squeeze. I have yet to see it used in an actual non min-max-to-the-extreme-situation (*not saying there aren't less extreme threads with it used, just saying i haven't seen any).

So is the problem that it's associated with min/maxers? (And we don't want to have them on our boards because they are lower on the geek hierarchy?)

Now that I know the what PEACH stands for, by itself it doesn't seem any worse that FLGS or ROTFLMAO.

The bigger problem with the acronyms is, that they are not case-sensitive.

A peach isn't the same as PEACH.

You know what I could go for right now? Peach cobbler.

 

[Merkuri]

I'm only mildly familiar with the acronym and the debate behind it, but I have to agree that it seems pretty immature to give it that tooltip definition. If you want to discourage the use of the acronym there are better ways to do it than to insult people who may be unsuspectingly using it.

I mean, if EN World's official position is "don't use this acronym" then make the tooltip something like, "Please do not use this acronym" or even something like "downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh" to make it clear that you don't like it. But making it say "I deserve to be banned for using this" just seems over the top to me.

 

[Noumenon]

So that's what those underlines mean! I thought it was a persnickety spell checker.