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New nickname: iSKEP?

Minoosh

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I used to be able to reference the forum name in 4 letters. I'd like to have better "branding" on the name of the new site. For years now I have been telling people about a site on the Internet where personal attacks are taboo, people are called on their flaws in logic and evidence-based arguments are respected. In my limited experience I can identify 3 kinds of forums:

- those that quickly devolve into personal insults
- those with such a benign culture that moderators aren't needed
- those so tightly monitored that dissent is instantly quashed

My search is by no means exhaustive, but still, a forum with a culture of civility, fairly lightly moderation and a strong bias toward evidence-based argument is such a rare bird that I frequently mention its existence to friends. ISKEP, iSkep, I-SKEP would all be convenient brand names.

Googling these I do find unrelated items - INSKEP is a word in Afrikaans, ISKEP is someone's online user name - so I'm not wed to these suggestions. However a short, phonetic nickname would help the new brand, IMO.
 
I don't i-anything. The association with Apple is onerous.

ISF has seemed to work for most people here. I'd go with IntSkep, but then we have those folks in the UK and former colonies who insist on the sceptic spelling.

ISF by default. Call it what you want and it'll take on legs of its own if people like it. (JREF was/is only a well-known acronym for a very small subset of humanity. I don't think it's that big an issue for us, frankly.)
 
I used to be able to tell people to type the old acronym into a search engine. Granted, hardly anyone ever did it but I liked being able to offer a shorthand search term. I write the long form on the board sometimes for students.
 
International Skeptics Internet Site.

Or ISIS. I'm sure that will catch on.:D
 
Mike! said:
It should be something short, sweet and concise.
Like: The Forum Formally Known as The James Randi Educational Foundation Forum.
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"TFFKATJREF" sounds more like a hairball than a forum.
 
Here's my issue. If was easy to say JREF. I referred people to it. I don't know if they followed up but it was easy to say it. Also I got used to typing jref into Google. I understand the bookmark thing but typing those 4 letters is just how I did it. So the issue is partly simple inefficiency on my part but having a 4-letter, phonetically simple acronym has value, IMO.
 
arthwollipot said:
Nothing at all wrong with ISF.
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Plugging those initials doesn't take me to the forum. Plugging in the old acronym took me straight to the forum.

I don't have it bookmarked - I tend to do things the hard way.
 
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