[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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