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Dumping old Proposed Terminology page to the talk page here:

Importing old Proposed Terminology page

Watching another's journal

Need a term for adding someone to your watch list and removing them.

  • Associate/Disassociate
  • Link/Unlink
  • Connect/Disconnect
  • Attach/Detach
  • Watch/Ignore (ignore might have bad connotations)
  • Subscribe/Unsubscribe
  • Follow/Unfollow (Twitter terminology)
  • Watch/Stop Watching
  • Watch/Unwatch
My personal preference goes to Watch/Unwatch, because it describes the action well, and both actions are only one word. --Snakeling 19:14, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Sharing protected entries with others

Tricky terminology--want something that doesn't imply the dramaz

  • Trust/Untrust (awkward, possible bad connotations)
  • Including/Releasing
  • Authorize/Remove
  • Authorize/Unauthorize
  • Permit/Remove
  • Allow/Remove
  • Open/Close
  • Grant/Revoke
  • Allow/Disallow
  • Invite/Uninvite
  • Unlock/Lock
  • Key/Lock (out?)

Possibility: have filters (need permission access) and channels (don't necessarily need permission; decision on whether to watch a given journal's channel given to the describer)

I like Allow/Remove, Allow/Disallow, and Grant/Revoke.
Trust/Untrust we should avoid on account of dramallama; Authorize is long and gets unwieldy when you stick the Un- in front of it. I don't think we should use Unlock/Lock because it inverts the action and that would get confusing, especially for non-native speakers. Most of the others are not descriptive enough, imo. --Snakeling 19:18, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Main and secondary accounts

  • Hub/Spoke
  • Primary/Auxilliary
  • Primary/Ancillary
  • Primary/Secondary
  • Primary/Subsidiary
  • Account/Persona
  • Account/Alias (IRC terminology)
  • Account/Journal (sort of LJ terminology)
Personally, I really liked Master/Slave, but I can see why it's a bad idea ;)
I like Primary/Secondary more than the other Primary/alternates, because it's easier to understand for a non-native speaker.
Account/Persona or Account/Journal would be a good idea, but I feel there's a slight shift in meaning from Primary/Secondary. I personally would describe an account as something that's above all the journals/personas, even if one was created before the others; while Primary would be the very first created journal, with the others are Secondary. Not sure whether I'm managing to convey what I want to convey, here. --Snakeling 19:23, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Other

  • Network -- refers to everyone you are watching and trusting