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• <3 A heart! Represents love.
• AASM The Ask A Section Leader forum of TSR. A place to go when you want to ask Section Leader a question. AASM is only visible to the Section Leaders and the Community team.
• AAM The Ask a Mod forum of TSR. A place to go when you want to ask the moderators a question. AAM is visible to all moderators.
• About About TSR, a forum to discuss changes, technical issues, feelings, history, other members and more relating to TSR.
• Admin Short for administrator, a person who can make changes to the setup of the forum as well as user accounts. Administrators appear in bold red on the forum.
• AFAIK As far as I know.
• Arcade Games area of TSR. [1]
• Avatar A small picture that you choose to include in your postbit.
• Ban An action by the moderators to block access of an account to the site if they have exceeded 15 warning points.
• BTW By the way.
• Box See Shoutbox
• Community Assistant See Forum Assistant.
• CN Chris Newson, the owner of TSR.
• CP See UserCP.
• Credits TSR's currency, usually used to buy subscriptions. (Usually found in the plural, as 1 GBP = 100 credits; singular form is left to the imagination of the user).
• D&D The Debate and Discussion forum of TSR.
• Donning The way in which users organise themselves to give either positive or negative reputation to one user. This is strictly forbidden.
• Dupe Short for Duplicate Account. A secondary account of an existing user. Dupe accounts are allowed so long as they do not break the forum rules and the primary account has not been banned.
• f38 The Maths Academic Help forum of TSR.
• FAQ The Frequently Asked Questions page of TSR.
• F&B The Fashion & Beauty forum of TSR.
• F&D The Food & Drink forum of TSR.
• FFS For f...'s sake.
• Flaming An argument between users which results in unnecessary personal or offensive insults which detract from the actual debate.
• Forum Assistant A user who has a small number of administrative moderation powers to move, merge and remove threads but not the ability to warn or view post reports. Forum assistants are used in forums which require intensive moderation such as PS Help, the HoC and the MUN.
• FTW Acronym, meaning For The Win (internet speak for liking something).
• FYI For Your Information.
• Gap Year The British English term 'Gap Year' is given to a prolonged period (often, but not always, a year) taken off full-time education by a student leaving high school and (ideally) before matriculating in college or university.
• GD General Discussion, The old forum that allows for general discussion on anything and everything. This forum no longer exists and has supposidly been changed into the Everyday Issues forum. Usually used as a place of first post for n00bs who are unsure where they should be posting. The International Lounge, Societies Forum and the Gallery all come under the umbrella of General Discussion.
• Gems The visual representation of "rep" (see entry for rep).
• GUD General University Discussion, a forum for all discussion about university life.
• H&R The Health and Relationships forum of TSR.
• HoC The House of Commons section of TSR (under D&D which is essentially an e-Parliament).
• IBTL In before the lock. Posting in the belief that the thread will soon be closed by the moderators.
• IDK I don't know.
• IIRC If I recall/remember correctly.
• IM(H)O In my (humble/honest) opinion.
• J Jamie, the Marketing Director of TSR.
• LaTeX A simple way of producing realistic mathematical formulae, used principally on the Maths and Physics forums under Academic Help. TSR uses mimeTeX, a version of LaTeX. (Example: with a few minor changes, x = [-b +/- sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)] / 2a can be rendered as .)
• Legbite see LGBT.
• LGBT Lesbian, Gay, Bi(sexual/curious), Trans(sexual/gender/vestite).
• LMAO Laugh/ing my arse/ass off.
• LOL Laugh/ing out loud.
• MimeTeX See LaTeX.
• Mods Short for moderators. Voluntary staff of TSR who help to moderate content, appointed by the TSR Administration Team and with duties in specific sections of TSR. They appear in bold purple on the forum.
• MUN Model United Nations forum of TSR which roleplays the actual UN.
• Neg Rep. Negative reputation. When this is give out, points are deducted from the reputation level of the recipient. "To neg" can also be used as a verb meaning "to give negative rep to". ("to pos" does exist, but is rarely used!). Also negged (past tense).
• Newbie See n00b.
• n00b A new member of TSR. Can be defined by join date, post count or reputation level. They usually display a lack of knowledge about the rules/workings of the site.
• OMG Oh my God.
• OOC Stands for "Out Of Character", used mainly in the MUN to make a point whilst not representing your country. OOC: "lets have a carrot competition"
• OP Original Poster. The user who started the thread. e.g. "I agree with what the OP says". Can also mean original post.
• OT Off-topic.
• Ownd [own3d, own] Occurs when one person demolishes the other in a debate/argument/discussion, "haha, I ownd your thread".
• Perm Short for Permanent Ban. The permanent blocking of a user from using the site, including any duplicate accounts that they may possess or create. See Ban.
• PM Private Message function of TSR that allows you to convey a message to up to 5 people privately.
• Pos Rep. Positive reputation. When this is given out, points are added to the reputation level of the recipient. "To pos" can also be used as a verb meaning "to give positive rep to". (However, it is rarely used!).
• Post A post is an individual comment left within a discussion thread.
• Postbit The section of each post which contains your user information (e.g. your avatar, user title, join date).
• Post Report The post report is the user's way of bringing inappropriate threads to the moderators' attention. You can use the feature by clicking on the red triangle image at the top right of each post.
• PPD Posts per day, an average number based on your overall number of posts divided by the number of days you've been a member of the site.
• PS Personal Statement. This is the document you need to write when applying to universities or institutions of higher learning in the UK, to be submitted together with your UCAS application. Help on this can be received from the Ask a PS Helper forum.
• PRSOM Please Rate Some Other Member. When you want to rep to someone but the server rejects your request as you are not allowed to rep the same person twice in too short a period.
• Pwn (past tense: pwned, pwnd, pwn'd, pwnt, pooned) means to beat or dominate an opponent who tries to own you, or be superior in general. cf. own. Pronounced "poon" or "own".
• Rep Reputation. The system whereby users evaluate each others' posts. At the bottom of each post is a thumbs up or thumbs down. You may give Positive Rep' via a thumbs up and Negative Rep' via a thumbs down. You can also give Positive Rep within a members profile, with the ability to leave a message. This is done by selecting the 'Give Rep' button within the user profile. Also used as a verb: "to rep" means "to give reputation to".
• Rep Level The amount of reputation you are in possession of.
• Rep Power The amount of reputation you can give to another member. Negative reputation is worth half the amount of positive reputation.
• Rep Rules Restrictions have had to be placed on reputation to limit the number of times you can give out reputation, and how often you can give reputation to the same person. Rules regarding donning and whoring are also in place.
• Rep Whoring Swapping reputation with another user. It is frowned upon, and penalised when it comes to attention.
• Repflation A term for the inflation of reputation in the forum meaning that 1 rep point now is worth less now than in the past as the reputation power and reputation level of users continues to increase.
• Report See Post Report.
• Reputation See rep.
• ROFL Rolling on the floor laughing. Also roffle
• RSS "Rich Site Summary" or "Real Simple Syndication", which works on some fora of TSR. Instead of the user browsing websites for information of interest, the information is gathered by an aggregator (a program which reads RSS feeds) in an automated fashion.
• Section Leader Moderators with responsibility for moderating the entire site. They each oversee and specialise in a specific section of the site and appear in bold cyan on the forum..
• Shoutbox Messaging application for subscribers to chat amongst themselves in quasi-real-time. Located in the Back Room and Chat.
• Sig Short for signature, a little box a the bottom of your post that can display any information you wish. Examples are grades, socs information or quotes from other members. Can be hidden/shrunk. See SIG-A-TRON.
• SIG-A-TRON A feature that allows you to shrink other people's sigs to either a spoiler-type expanding box, or an autoscrolling area with a maximum pixel height. This can be accessed through the "My Account" link at the top then under preferences.
• Spam Usless off-topic or annoying posts, often consisting of a only smilie and/or a single word.
• Socs Societies. TSR has a number of societies, a list of which can be found here. The popularity of societies remains a mystery as the function consists of 1) a place to talk to those with similar interests 2) a small icon in your postbit.
• Spartacus Annoying and repetitive forum game started by one member posting the words "I am Spartacus". Other members then repeat the phrase endlessly, or attempt to prove by other means that they are indeed Spartacus.
• Sub Subscription / Subscriber. Can be used as a verb: "to sub" means "to give a subscription to".
• Sub-forum A forum inside another forum. Examples are GCSE and A Level forums inside the Exams forum.
• Supermods Now called 'Section Leaders' - see description.
• Tags See Thread Tags.
• TBF To be fair.
• TBH To be honest.
• TBR The Back Room, the secret low moderation subscriber forum. The place for sex chat.
• Tech Technology Forum for discussion about or problems with technology. Includes everything from Gaming to Dev.
• TeX See LaTeX.
• Thread A discussion based around a certain topic, detailed in either the title, the first 'Post' or both. On the forums, each discussion is refered to as a "thread", which contains one or more posts.
• Thread Tags The bold coloured text which may appear beside the thread titles of certain threads. These are added by the moderators and include tags such as "Potential Trigger", "Needs Attention" and "Resolved".
• TMI Too Much Info
• Troll A user who posts controversial and/or offensive material (usually anonymously or under a secondary username) in order to start arguments.
• TSR The Student Room.
• UCAS University and Colleges Admissions Service of the UK. Discussions on UCAS take place at the Applications & UCAS forum.
• UKL (or UK-Learning) The old name for The Student Room.
• UserCP (or UCP) User Control Panel, the old name for "My TSR". From here you can alter your profile, options, view your rep, see who quoted you, and so on. Changed to the "My Home"/"My Account when the new site was launched.
• Usertitle The small line of writing that appears immediately under your username. This is standard and changes when you reach certain post milestones. If you are a sub, however, you have the ability to change this to pretty much anything you like, within reason. (If you are found to have an inappropriate usertitle then the mods will PM you and ask you to change it)
• VB Short for VBulletin which is the engine behind the forum environment used by TSR.
• VB Code Formatting in vbulletin requires specific code, which can be found here.
• vBookie vBookie is TSR's very own betting system that uses credits, and is often played over sports matches.
• Warning This is a system the moderators can use to guide your posting without having to personally PM you.
• Warning Points These are red, and appear on your postbit. The point tariff for different violations varies, and the "warning points" are a way of quantifying the level of the infraction of the rules.
• Warning Level Is the number of warning points you have received in total.
• Whoring See Rep Whoring
• WTF What the ....?
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