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Acronymous AnonymousPosted by Angela Brett (angela@acronyms.co.nz) on 27 July 2001 08:37:34 UTC |
| Hi, I've had a lot of people send acronyms which are not suitable for this site, mostly because they are commonly used acronyms or mnemonics which either don't spell words or the words aren't related to the expansions. However, I've also had some acronyms sent to me which are the right kind of acronym, but they're reasonably well known and nobody knows who thought of them. I don't really want to include these on the site, because then I'd feel like I'd have to add all the anonymous acronyms out there, and people might get the idea they can just scour other acronym sites and send me their finds. These could soon begin to dominate over the acronyms which were sent in by their authors, and the people who actually deliberately contributed to this website/stack would fade into the background. I also prefer it if the acronymist knows about this site, although that's not such an issue with acronyms which nobody knows the origin of. I'm fine if the creator of the acronym wishes to be marked as Anonymous, as long as the acronym(s) are still submitted by whoever thought of them. I want this website to be more about creation than collection. However, some of the acronyms are quite good. Rather than cluttering the main site with anonymous contributions, there could be a forum thread (this one!) where people can post well known/anonymous acronyms which they particularly like. Of course, these would only be acronyms which otherwise fit roughly inside the submission guidelines - the acronym would have to fit the expansion, and they'd be deliberately created as this form of wordplay rather than just a bunch of letters like JABOL. |
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