Any quick help thread for abbreviations?

This is a little older, I am not sure if there is an updated list floating around

http://alewatcher.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-trader-tips.html#Abbreviations

 

my thought is that we might consider a stickied FAQ thread in this forum with links to a page with abbreviations, a link to packing tips, a link to international shipping tips, etc. we could add links to pages of different types as the community needs them.

@Todd ?

 

sometimes i know the answer and ask anyway.

you know as well as i do that there's no way to kill them off though.

 

^That just seems to be more work than needed, if there were no more avb's. (Lol)
Everyone is quick to use abbreviations for a few short words and then turn around and "quote" the person previous person. WTH

 

I feel like we do a pretty good job of asking one another if we aren't sure on an abbreviation someone has posted. I think maintaining a list would be overkill and an administrative nightmare.

 

Any time there's an abbreviation I don't recognize, I just type it into google with "beer" on the end. For example:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=+BCBS+beer

 

I'd be fine with abbreviations if they were consistent. It's hard to do a search for a beer in forums when some people spell it out and others abbreviate it in one of several acceptable forms.

 

I'm not sure why people are so shy about asking what an abbreviation/acronym means or just simply Google it with the word "beer" as @GreesyFizeek said. As savvy as I am, I sometimes come across one I don't know. I Googled or asked. NO ONE will laugh at you if you asked. One person asks, the few other people who don't know gets the answer as well. Semi active traders know 90-95% of the time. Once in a while, a new trader or a long would complain about not knowing a few here and there and all of the sudden it's an issue again.

I like this idea the most so far. Getting rid of acronyms makes it more cumbersome for the majority of active users of the trade forums while babying a small minority. Consolidate, educate, expand, reuse is the way to go.

 

No idea how hard this would be on the back end, but one possible terrific application for the above would be adding tooltips (the thing that pops up when you hover your cursor over something on a web page) for acronyms in the forums. On top of being a boon to anyone who isn't familiar with an acronym, it'd help those who do know acronyms use them correctly/consistently.

 

I like how most are quick to use Abbreviations to save time and space, yet are turn around a quote the 1000 words from the previous user. WTH?

 

This is a pretty good list.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FqP7gBOsjUYoEbDpVL4kx3ISJXGucjtgxbQA7yPMY4s/pub

 

I do the same thing, it has yet to fail me.

 

I assume you know that it takes one click to quote that 1,000 word response, right?

 

^I could have gave a great smart-ass reply,but the point is just like with abbreviations is about $aving $pace

 

For me, it's about time.

 

I really doubt most people using abbreviations here are doing it to save space. This isn't Twitter - plenty of TL;DR posts abound. It's to save those precious 2.6 seconds!

 

Google has always worked for me. In situations where it might be ambivalent I ask, ie BT, is it Black Tuesday or Broken Truck.