Acronyms and Other Trivia

Sounds good but better for each of WDW and DLR as there are differences.
I’m sure the same questions keep getting asked year after year.

So what would it look like? You could have a : what do I need to know about fast passes? And the reply could include links to where the information is?

I am going to invite a few liners to this thread.

I think there isn’t one central FAQ thread because things change. All the time. Therefore, someone would have to organize, manage and update the information. (Sounds like a job for a librarian…) But we are all just volunteers with lives of our own, so nobody has time to do this for free. So people ask questions and anyone who can pitches in to answer. Sometimes we’re wrong or the answer changes or a new person asks the same question. So someone else nicely corrects the answer or answers it again.

Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. That’s how it works. :slight_smile:

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What I struggle with is- isn’t that chat and isn’t this supposed to be different? The podcast said there was no information here and we know that’s not true.

If I’m looking for information I just search from where I am- I don’t go into any section on the forum and poke around so won’t see anything that’s pinned. For something like this it might be easier to just have links on the page template?

Maybe have some links down the bottom of the page (above the red buttons to Twitter etc) with titles like DL fastpass FAQ, wdw fastpass FAQ, etc?

I’m not sure if this is what the poster was asking for though…?

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I agree that there is a lot of great information here. I do have some strong opinions about organizing information, and this Forum does have the potential to be more, but I’m not sure the Powers That Be want it to be more than it already is. Making the Forum MORE…more organized, more searchable, more curated for currency and accuracy, more appropriately categorized and tagged for searches, etc…would require a lot of work on a regular basis. That’s what professionals with MLIS degrees do, but we don’t do it for free. I could do it, but I’m not willing to spend 20 hours a week on it as an unpaid community member. I probably would have volunteered three years ago. Eh, I’ll let some other people chime in and maybe I’ll feel like volunteering in the morning. :wink:

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I think I tried to start something maybe last year with my “that was then, this is now” thread. If anyone wants to start a Q and A wdw thread I will add what I know. If no one wants to start but are ok with an attempt I will start one next weekend. @Ladythomas, I do not sort by category either. I have my alerts set so I see very thread. I sort by latest, new and unread. I have time on weekends and I am volunteering to experiment with a wdw thread but not until next weekend. I barely have time to eat during the week but I enjoy crawling through thread here!

Interesting, to do a search on Acronyms returns 50 topics and then read each one to find a useful answer. Acronyms seem to be used in 80-90% of topics/answers. Life would be simpler if at least Acronyms (or FAQ) were a subset of the top level Category. I wonder how many newbies are as frustrated by acronyms as me. My trips to the USA are limited to one or two in a lifetime (from downunder).

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That is a great idea.

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I’m Aussie too.
I get the confusion and can understand why it’s important for this stuff to be easily found, but I never had that problem.

Not sure if this is still being modified, but in case it is…

HEA = Happily Ever After

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I searched but can’t find it.

What does EMM mean?

Thanks!

Extra Morning Magic? The paid event at MK where you get to go on Peter Pan, Mine Train and I think Winnie the Pooh, plus breakfast?

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Ah, thank you! Did not know about this.

OMG, its $200!!!

No thanks!!!

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But it has breakfast. :wink:

What does SFL stand for?

SFL is used in chat to “save for later” - because chat is designed to be super simple (to minimize mobile data use) there’s no search or bookmarks. So, if people want to be able to find a specific chat thread later they’ll SFL it so they can find it in their own chats list.

Posting to Bump to the top for a new user.

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