[Foundation-l] Renaming "Flagged Protections"

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla at robla.net> wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:21 AM, William Pietri <william at scissor.com>wrote:
>
>> That did cross my mind, and it was tempting. But practically, many busy
>> journalists, causal readers, and novice editors may base a lot of their
>> initial reaction on the name alone, or on related language in the
>> interface. By choosing an arbitrary name, some fraction of people will
>> dig deeper, but another fraction will just retain their perplexity
>> and/or alienation.
>
>
> This is a really good point, and brings up another point for everyone to
> consider.  If the name is not *immediately* evocative of something to the
> casual reader, it might as well be called the "Hyperion Frobnosticating
> Endoswitch".  It will be a blank slate as far as journalists and the world
> at large is concerned.  I think we're better off with a term that gets us in
> the ballpark with little or no mental energy than we are picking something
> that has clinical precision, but takes more than a few milliseconds of
> consideration to get the the gist.


I support "Hyperion Frobnosticating Endoswitch".