Talk:Quizbowl lingo

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Kevin Wang (talk) 09:24, 10 December 2020 (CST)

Lingo to add

• bike/biking
• blank/blanking
• bot/botting
• depreflex/depreflexing
• firstline/firstlining
• :joy:/:eyejoy:
• packet reading
• :psyduck:
• :pumblechook:/:finelad:
• :crabcrab:/:pepegacrab: (incl. :crabcreek:/:pepegacreek:)

User:Eric Yin (talk)

I question the need to have things for every discord emoji, but I suppose there's no harm. Kevin Wang (talk)

Stuff used (essentially) only on Discord might be best presented as a section on the Quizbowl Discord article Jonah (talk) 17:27, 10 December 2020 (CST)

True—Quizbowl Discord should also have a section on region- and demographic-specific Discord servers User:Eric Yin (talk)

Lingo to potentially change

• buzzer rock-- I think make clear at least that it's a generally bad term to use and is often insulting to less-experienced players
• fraud-- not a big fan of the way it's worded right now as being purely derogatory towards the player and not a question. Also doesn't really talk about linguistic fraud, which I have actually heard in use fairly recently.
• ladder theory of quizbowl-- it's a weird thing I haven't heard before that sounds pretty insidery and the connotations with the more well-known "ladder theory" aren't good
• real quizbowl -- probably not as relevant today, could use more context to explain (especially the exclusion of HS and HCASC questions). Maybe could combine with "format war" to have an article summarizing the history/arguments/posts about the long struggle towards good quizbowl
• trophy whore-- probably not a good term to use; is there a better substitute?
• Young's Law-- is this really something worth having on the QBwiki

flagged some of these terms that we might not want to have on the wiki or which could use some changes -Chris Chiego

I agree about most of those. I think trophy whoring and Young's Law get referenced enough (in concept, though not in name) to be worth keeping, though disclaimers about rudeness/offensive stereotypes wouldn't be amiss. Jonah (talk) 20:08, 10 December 2020 (CST)