Microsoft's take on leetspeak & griefers

I am sure that this is old hat to many, but I just saw this today and found it very funny.

A parent's primer to computer slang
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx

10 tips for dealing with game cyberbullies and griefers
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/griefers.mspx


I don't run into griefers much in SL, thankfully, but it is funny when I'm goofing around with friends and if somebody unknown drops in to *clearly* cause trouble...it's like someone presses pause on the VCR... everyone freezes, no movement, no talking, just absolute...silence. Like a blanket of quiet that settles on our shoulders until the interloper moves on... then back to the regularly scheduled infantile behavior (i.e. our behavior )

Yeah -- sometimes it's like a display of performance art, but without the performance, and it could hardly be called art. Being the antithesis of a dextrous mime or even a mad-as-nails prophet soapboxing it, it doesn't even have the flava that comes with beatnik poetry. So, WHAT IS IT?!? LOL.

I've never heard the term "snerts, cheese players, twinks" used to describe what I know as GREEFER KIN (bad-spelling dezcendent$ of the original "griefers" before. Ah well, learn something new every day.

Forseti, I like your approach to griefers. I think that's the strategy that will have the best results most often.

Your link was pretty funny too. I kept thinking I was watching one of those 1950's educational tapes about marijuana and the evils of counterculture. "Remember, kids, l33t5p34k is a gateway to pr0n!"

Obviously, you are not kewl, Torley! J00 r N00B! PWN3D!

"Snert" was in use on AOL back in the early 90's, when I was told the acronym was invented by AOL chat room hosts to describe troublemakers. At one point a few years later, AOL moderators were instructed, specifically and emphatically, not to use this term while in uniform.

Here's some other info: http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msnert.html

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ps: 1 h4xx0r3d j00r g1b$0n

I know of "twink" or "twinking" from my MUCK days; there, twinking meant performing an act that affected another character without consent/givving them an opportunity to respond (MUCKs are based on free-form roleplay and not numbers and stats). The most obvious examples include stuff like running to a person and stabbing them; unless you pre-planed it with the other player out of character, that's a twink. However, you could stab *at* a person and leave the response to them (good roleplayers learned not to abuse this and react in a realistic maner).

Newbies unfamiliar with the MUCK style of roleplaying may twink a lot untill they finaly "get it", but people who outright refuse to stop twinking, go around stabbing people for fun, etc., cross the line into greifing.

"twink" is short for "twinkie" (duh) and is an old skool homosexual slang word for a young homosexual (gay newbie if you will) who's usually not real bright or kind of a bimbo type. sometimes means one with a sugar daddy which is prolly where the game meanings come from.

the...more....you....knoooooooow!

I'm LMAO. And will comment more when I'm not cleaning up an oatmeal mess off my desk.

3y3 g07 50m37|-|1|\|G 4 j00r p|_||\|K@55. .... damnit! we need a English-to-Leet translator for firefox.

No... we really, really don't.

Moved to Off-Topic for further discussion.

So, what would be the l33t sp3ak term for "Evil, billionaire, uber-nerd"?

I once posted a paragraph on a message board explaining why I hated all those infernal Halo 2 posts on an Xbox forum in 1337 sp34k.

Took me over 2 hours to compose the thing. And to think kids post it fluently in forums only to be challenged to use proper characters. Even then they leave out all punctuation and form one whole hideously long string of words that make no sense whatever.

Oh and while grading a quiz I took a few extra minutes to ponder why some kid would use 1337 sp34k on the quiz.

PSA:

j00 c4n b33 l33t t00