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A 7 Cups Glossary

User Profile: RarelyCharlie
RarelyCharlie October 21st, 2016

Here's an unofficial glossary of the terminology used at 7 Cups. At present this is an experiment to see whether the community will find it useful. If it does prove to be useful I'll do my best to keep it up to date. You can find it here:

7 Cups Glossary

Please report errors, omissions and technical problems here in this forum thread. Any glossary requires constant maintenance and I am very happy to make corrections.

I'll add any English terminology that 7 Cups uses in a special way, and that you see used without explanation anywhere in the website or the app. When you report an error or omission, it would be helpful if you can include a link to somewhere I can see the term used.

I decided not to include all the badges, because there are approaching 400 of them, but if you see a badge mentioned somewhere without explanation I'll add it, and if you think I should add all of them let me know.

To link to the glossary in forums, feeds and chats, copy the link above. To link directly to a particular term, add its hashtag to the link. For example, here's a direct link to the term Hope Newsletter using its hashtag #hope-newsletter in the link.

The glossary is hosted on an external site, but you can't contact me there. To contact me, either reply in this thread or send me a message.

enlightened Hat tips to @live4logan who identified the need for a glossary back in April, to @Kaeneus who wrote earlier this month about feeling overwhelmed by jargon, and to @SandyCream who reviewed an early version.

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User Profile: Eunoia
Eunoia October 21st, 2016

@RarelyCharlie

This so helpful! Thanks for making a glossary. Maybe we can make it official and it would be really helpful to have it at a very visible place too!

Tagging @laura @amelia

User Profile: Laura
Laura October 23rd, 2016

@RarelyCharlie

This is really really awesome! i'd love to link this more formally on the site.

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User Profile: RarelyCharlie
RarelyCharlie OP October 23rd, 2016

smiley I'd be very happy for that to happen.

@Laura

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User Profile: WMi
WMi December 26th, 2016

This is amazingly helpful! @RarelyCharlie thank you for your time and hardwork putting this all together! yes *bumping this up*

User Profile: PacificSunrise
PacificSunrise December 29th, 2016

@RarelyCharlie This is awesome. Thanks for posting this!

User Profile: Emily619
Emily619 May 2nd, 2017

This is wonderful! Just a heads up TS also stands for Teen Star laugh

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User Profile: RarelyCharlie
RarelyCharlie OP May 3rd, 2017

Thank you wink

I added Teen Star to the definition of TS (along with Thinking Space), although in general all the unofficial abbreviations that there are make me unhappy. I think they make it more difficult for newcomers to understand what's going on here.

@Emily619

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User Profile: Emily619
Emily619 May 3rd, 2017

@RarelyCharlie

Sounds good! The only TS I've heard of was for Teen Star but that's also because there's not a Thinking Space room on the Teen Side cheeky

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User Profile: Alex
Alex May 15th, 2017

@RarelyCharlie I love this!!! This was a very good idea and it is very useful for the entire community. Thanks for making this!