Hello all! Need some brainstorming...

I'm trying to come up with a name (and corresponding ASCII symbol) for the new site's currency or points or karma or whatever you want to call it.

Users will get these "points" for posting forum threads, comments, voting, etc. They will also be able to redeem them for further access to the site, downloads, etc. So it's somewhere between a point system and a currency. Plus it'll also be an indication, like the forum posts are right now, of a user's senority/contributions to the site.

Any ideas? I don't want anything too girly or nerdy or capitalistic.

..and it has to have an ASCII symbol... hmm...

(.)(.) - Boobie points...

(î) - Hmm... perhaps not...

geekpoints... StephTheGeekpoints

ω - Small Omega

۞ - It's just a neat unicode symbol...

                            .   .  ____________________

                           /|  /|  |                  |

                           ||__||  |      Please do   |

                          /   O O\__         NOT      |

                         /          \     feed the    |

                        /      \     \     trolls     |

                       /   _    \     \ ______________|

                      /    |\____\     \     ||

                     /     | | | |\____/     ||

                    /       \|_|_|/   \    __||

                   /  /  \            |____| ||

                  /   |   | /|        |      --|

                  |   |   |//         |____  --|

           * _    |  |_|_|_|          |     \-/

        *-- _--\ _ \     //           |

          /  _     \\ _ //   |        /

        *  /   \_ /- | -     |       |

          *      ___ c_c_c_C/ \C_c_c_c____________

or

                         ___====-_  _-====___

                  _--~~~#####// '  ` \\#####~~~--_

                -~##########// (    ) \\##########~-_

               -############//  |\^^/|  \\############-

             _~############//   (O||O)   \\############~_

            ~#############((     \\//     ))#############~

           -###############\\    (oo)    //###############-

          -#################\\  / `' \  //#################-

         -###################\\/  ()  \//###################-

        _#/|##########/\######(  (())  )######/\##########|\#_

        |/ |#/\#/\#/\/  \#/\##|  \()/  |##/\#/  \/\#/\#/\#| \|

        `  |/  V  V  `   V  )||  |()|  ||(  V   '  V /\  \|  '

           `   `  `      `  / |  |()|  | \  '      '<||>  '

                           (  |  |()|  |  )\        /|/

                          __\ |__|()|__| /__\______/|/

                         (vvv(vvvv)(vvvv)vvv)______|/

OK maybe not, but ASCII art is fun :wink:

Hah, saggy boobs or a unicode sun.. cute.

Actually, jx100 just gave a great suggestion -- pixels! Could use a paragraph (¶) or thorn (Þ) symbol too...

Thoughts?

I like the §tephPoints idea and like the § symbol.

A suggestion might be to abbreviate it to §toints
mono-syllabic seems better, at least for us knuckledraggers

Hmmm,

I have 54 §toints in my account.
You have been awarded §54.

Does it sing ?

I like "stoints" a lot.

/too lazy to copy the actual character
//*WAY* too lazy to look up the way to manually type it in
///been away for a few days and need to catch up on my slashies

Heh heh, I LOVE the section symbol. I was thinking about using it but it's also used for Simoleons (the Sim currency) so I wasn't sure if it'd be too copy-ish.

I also figured using my name in the currency was a little cheesy :P But if you guys are all for it, I'm not opposed to it!

Stokens? Not sure if that sounds right...

Why not Spoints? §points? Sounds cuter than Stoints.

I was under the impression that § was the universally accepted symbol for currency.

Oh. No, wait, it's ¤.

I'm settled on spoints, or §points (sorry dev2r!). Stoints sounds too much like a medical term or something :oops:

Thanks everyone :)

Sounds more like a cheap micro-brew to me.

"Hey... Pick me up a couple-three cases of Stoints while yer at the store there, er no?"

I like Geekgasms.

EDIT:

Secondary reasoning beyond 'it just sounds better': If this site is headed towards a 'community' style, the emphasis should be on 'Geek' rather than 'Steph'. I know, I know, tar and feather time (peanut butter jelly time!), but 'Geekwhatever' is also far more descriptive than 'Swhatever'. 'S'? Uh.. K?

I'm still open to convincing otherwise :)

But I'm still preferring spoints... yes it does have the Steph S, but I definitely agree that I don't want it as Steph-something, given the community focus. Dorks is a little vague I think..

Meh... 'points' is like a big, blunt club. A tad too obvious and inelegant. Pixels may be simple, but simple is good if it sounds topical.

i like pixels or px or pix... very appropriate with the site design and not explicitly steph-ish.

how about the Stixel?

Stixel does have a certain appeal, and it ties into the whole pixel art theme of the new site. It gets my vote, unless someone has something better...

Marg

Geexel is good too. So, I guess either stixel or geexel. Or maybe just plain geex.

Marg