Reading the Notre Dame thread and seeing Fr Harry's explanation of What a Troll is I thought I might make a post regarding forum "lingo" for those that might not be familiar. Fr Harry gave as good explanation as there is, from the wikki site.
Troll - Someone who is there to only cause trouble. He/She knows his/her post will cause argument if not with him/her but amongst others. Which leads most times to.....
Flaming - We've seen a bit if this in the past with certain posters. Simply put it's "going off" on someone. Belittling their person or point of view which can lead to a.........
Flame War - Of course this is when two people are going at each other with every insult they can think of.
Sock Puppet - Someone who hold multiple accounts on the forum and posts from each of them.
Bump or Bumping a Thread - To bump a thread is to make a post in a thread that has been inactive for some time and bring it back to top of the recent thread activity lists. Often the thread only has the word "bump" in it.
High Jacking - Which happens often here. A thread is taken over by an individual other than the original poster, pushing is view and steering the thread to his agenda and away from the OP's. Which brings us to.......
OP - Pretty easy, Original Poster.
+1 or any Number - +1 means agreement, the larger the number the more the responder agrees with the post he is responding to or the OP's original post.
Silent Posts - Silent posts are often used when one of the forum members, a family member, or friend of a member of the forum passes away. It's the forum equivalent to bowing our heads in silence and prayer. It is also used for instance this weekend, Memorial Day. On many forums, such as my own for our company, someone will create a Silent Post in remembrance of this day. People who join in the remembrance post only a blank post if the forum software allows, or with a +1 or higher number; if a post requires there be text to be accepted by the software. This software requires text.
OT: Off Topic; Used in the title of a thread to show that the Subject and content of the post is not within the theme of the Forum or Subforum. Not often used here since 99% of the threads are within the theme of the forum objectives.
As someone mentioned a couple of days ago with regard to reading the entire OP's post, this is a must, otherwise, a member could be responding to only the high jacker’s post, enforcing the high jacking of the thread.
Χριστός Ανεστή! Shannon 