Eng:Forum Terminology

This is a list of terms, abbreviations, and acronyms on commonly used on the Scratch Forums (as well as other forums), to help Scratchers understand posts better.

#

 * 46s: Miscellaneous forum (because of the forum ID number)*

A

 * AAS: All About Scratch forum* Not used much anymore, since that forum was replaced with the Questions About Scratch forums
 * ASAP: As Soon As Possible
 * AT: Advanced Topics forum*, also Art Trade
 * AF: April Fools
 * AFK: Away From Keyboard
 * AFAIK: As Far as I Know
 * ATer: Someone whose active in the Advanced Topics forum
 * ATM: At The Moment
 * AMV: Animated Music Video

B

 * BBCode: Markup language for forums
 * BTW: By The Way
 * Bump: This is being posted to bring this post to the top of the list
 * BRB: Be Right Back
 * BYOB: Build Your Own Blocks
 * Bio, a biography on a someone, usually a fictional character

C

 * Collab: Abbreviation for Collaboration
 * C&P: Copy and Paste
 * CYOA: Create-your-own-adventure, a type of RPG
 * Ceebs/CB: Ceebee (Scratch Team member)
 * CC: Coloring Contest, a type of contest in which participants have to color the provided line art

D

 * DTA: Draw to Adopt

F

 * FPS:
 * First Person Shooter (game)
 * Frames Per Second, when rendering something with the pen, such as a raycaster
 * FTFY: Fixed That For You
 * FYI: For Your Information
 * FTW: "For the Win!"; showing that something is very well done.
 * FNAF: Five Nights at Freddy's, a horror game that became very controversial, and enventually restricted on Scratch

G

 * G2G/GTG: Got To Go/Gotta go

H

 * HS: Homestuck, a web comic

I

 * IDC: I Don't Care
 * IDEK: I Don't Even Know
 * IDK: I Don't Know
 * IKR: I Know, Right
 * IMHO: In My Humble/Heart's/Honest Opinion
 * IMO: In My Opinion
 * IIRC: If I Recall/Remember Correctly

J

 * JK: Just Kidding

L

 * LOL: Laugh/Laughing Out Loud

M

 * MFG: Multi File Game, a type of game somewhat popular in the Text-based games forum
 * Mod:
 * Scratch modification*
 * Community Moderator
 * MaC: An abbreviation for the Things I'm Making and Creating forum.*
 * MAP: Multiple Animators Project, an animation collab

N

 * n00b: Newbie (novice) 'noob', 'newb', 'nub' is a variation of it
 * Ninjaed/Ninja'd: See Outposted
 * Necro: Necropost

O

 * [/offtopic]: Get back on topic, conversation has strayed
 * This is meant to resemble closing BBCode: a tag with a slash inside brackets generally means ending some property, in this case, offtopicness.
 * Outposted: somebody posted more or less the same thing right before you, usually by only a few seconds, also known as Ninjaed/Ninja'd
 * OC: Original character, a character which belongs to a particular user
 * Read Scratch Trends#Animal OC for more information

P

 * P2See/P2S/P2C/Paddle: Paddle2See (Scratch Team member)*
 * PMV: Picture Music Video, a music video which only uses pictures to tell the story; this is also known as "Pony Music Video", an AMV using characters from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Q

 * QaS: Questions about Scratch forum*

R

 * RC: Really Cool
 * ROFL: Rolling On the Floor Laughing (see also "LOL")
 * RPG: Role-playing-game, see TBG
 * RaP: Abbreviation for the Things I'm Reading and Playing forum.*

S

 * SDS: Scratch Design Studio*
 * Sig: Short for signature
 * Siggy: Signature
 * ST: Scratch Team
 * Speak/SV: Speakvisually (Scratch Team member)
 * support: see "+1"

T

 * TBD: To Be Determined/Decided
 * TBG: Text-Based-Games, Text-based Games forum*
 * TBR: To Be Released
 * TBC: To Be Continued.

U

 * UT: Undertale, an indie roleplaying game

Other

 * @             : the following text is directed towards the specified user: @Username: That's a good point!
 * +1 : I agree, usually used in the Suggestions forum
 * -1: I disagree, opposite of +1.