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ankle polisher

A cat, especially a friendly one.

Lani was an ankle polisher who would greet me at the door every day when I came home from work.

by mwalimu February 26, 2008


cropbait

A type of clickbait used on social media sites such as Facebook where the user is presented with a cropped image designed to entice the user to click on it to see the full image. The manner of presentation implies that the full image may be seen by clicking on the post, when in actuality the image shown is the full image and was intentionally cropped to entice the reader to click through. It might, for instance, appear to have "before" and "after" images where most of the "after" is cropped out, or have a screencap of someone's post about how they got revenge on their HOA that's cropped to cut off the rest of the story just as it's getting interesting. Clicking through will take the user to a website article with a title like "30 Ways Businesses Cleverly Gave Difficult Customers What They Deserved" that is loaded with banner and sidebar ads. The user may be required to scroll or click through many stories before finding the one from the original cropped image (if it's present at all, which it might not be).

That Facebook post about a neighbor's dog may look interesting, but it's cropbait and isn't worth your time to find out what happens next.

by mwalimu June 11, 2024


refresh monkey

Someone who visits a regularly updated website and uses their browser's refresh capability frequently in an effort to view the updated content as soon as possible after it is posted. This especially applies to sites where the updated content includes a feature such as a message board where fans of the site try to get bragging rights by making the first post (aka fipo or fpotd).

You generally have to wade through several "first post" attempts from refresh monkeys before you get to the first real discussion.

by mwalimu March 20, 2008

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