[squeakland] ranking system is live
Timothy Falconer
timothy at squeakland.org
Fri Sep 25 09:33:43 EDT 2009
Hi everyone,
The term "mojo" has been removed from the website, replaced by "points".
Sorry folks, I did ask about about a dozen people and none of them
thought mojo meant more than the sixties meaning.
One did mention Austin Powers.
Tim
On Sep 25, 2009, at 4:58 AM, Cathleen Galas wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Although I was going to be out of touch this week, I do feel
> compelled to weigh-in on the use of "mojo" on a children's site. I
> agree with Rita that it has no place here.
>
> Here is the definition from the urban dictionary:
> Mojo 797 up, 114 down <thumbsup.gif> <thumbsdown.gif>
> The word originally means a charm or a spell. But now its more
> commonly said meaning sex appeal or talent.
> "I can get any girl if I just use a bit of the old mojo"
>
> "Man, that girl has MOJO!"
>
> "God help me, I think I've lost my mojo!"
> When I put "mojo" in a thesarus search, it came up with two entries:
> cocaine and heroin.
>
> I think this says it all. Is this the image we want EToys to
> project to the world? I think there might be a few naive teachers
> who don't know the meanings, but will soon when bombarded with
> parents upset by the use of the word.
>
> Even though karma is being used by unix geeks, I wouldn't use that
> word either, but would certainly prefer it to mojo. I think it is
> entirely inappropriate to use mojo on this site. Please send me a
> ballot so that I can vote No on mojo!
>
> Cathie
>
> On Sep 23, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Timothy Falconer wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> The "mojo filter" ranking system is live. There are likely still
>> kinks.
>>
>> A brief description can be found here:
>>
>> http://squeakland.org/showcase/mojo.jsp
>>
>> To receive ballots, you must have an account and you must click
>> "send me ballots".
>>
>> For those that received the first wave of ballots, the screenshot
>> link was bad, but is hopefully now fixed.
>>
>> Have fun,
>> Tim
>>
>>
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> Cathleen Galas
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