R U a Digg n00b that gets pwned by 1337 Digg Commenters? Well RTFM so teh next time ur comment won’t be an EPIC FAIL!
On Digg, having something to say is only half the battle, knowing how to say it is the other half. This guides you to dissect the jargon, people and memes used in comments on a daily basis. Each section is broken down in detail to help you boost your Digg cred the next time that you leave a comment.
3G – Third Generation of mobile phone standards and technology
AMD – Advanced Micro Devices (mainly a CPU competitor to Intel)
API – Application Programming Interface
APOD – Astronomy Picture of the Day (link)
BS – Bullsh*t
CCTV – Closed-circuit television (UK public surveillance)
CCFL - Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps (Modern light bulb that uses a fraction of the electricity of regular light bulb)
CES – Consumer Electronics Show
D&D – Dungeons and Dragons
DAB – Digital Audio Broadcasting
DDR – Dance Dance Revolution
DIY – Do It Yourself
dl – Download
DRM – Digital Rights Management (digital music copyright)
DS – Nintendo “Developers’ System†or Nintento “Dual Screen†(Portable Nintendo Video Game System) -also avail in DS lite
E3 – Electronic Entertainment Expo
EDGE – Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (digital mobile phone technology that allows increased data transmission rates and improved data transmission reliability)
EV – Electronic Vehicle
FCC – Federal Communications Commission (US gov’t agency)
FISA – Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
FFXIII – Final Fantasy 13 (video game)
FP - Front Page of Digg (where story ends up after becoming popular)
FTW – For The Win (way to state that something is the winner)
FWIW – For What It’s Worth
FUBAR – “F’ed” Up Beyond All Recognition
GH – Guitar Hero
GL – Good Luck
GPL – GNU Public License
GTA – Grand Theft Auto (game)
GTD – Get Things Done (action management methodology)
Gnome – GNU Network Object Model (simplistic Linux desktop environment with a focus on usability)
GOW – Gears Of War (video game)
GSM – Global System for Mobile communications (most popular standard for mobile phones in the world)
HF - High Five
HDD - Hard Disk Drive
IE – Internet Explorer
IMHO – In My Honest Opinion
IMO – In My Opinion
IRC – Internet Relay Chat
JFGI – Just F’ing Google It
KA – Kickass
KDE – K Desktop Environment (GUI desktop environment for UNIX users)
LMAO – Laughing My Ass Off
LOL – Laughing Out Loud
MMO- Massive Multiplayer Online (game)
MMORPG- Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
MPAA – Motion Picture Association of America (US agency)
MPG – Miles Per Gallon
np – No Problem
NSFW – Not Safe For Work
OC - Overclock (Over Clock)
OMG – Oh My God
OS – Operating System
PET – Polyethylene Terephthalate (the largest polymer used in the US)
ROFL – Rolling On Floor Laughing
RTFA - Read the F’ing Article
RTFM – Read The F’ing Manual 
P2P – Peer-to-Peer (file sharing)
PnP – Plug ‘n Play
PS3 – PlayStation 3 (Video Game System/Blu Ray Player from Sony)
PSP – PlayStation Portable (Portable Video Game System from Sony)
PTSD – Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
PVP - Player Versus Player (game)
RIAA – Recording Industry Association of America (US agency)
RPG- Role Playing Game
SDK – Software Development Kit
SFW – Safe For Work
SMS – Short Message System (usually referring to a text message)
STFU – Shut The F Up
UMPC – Ultra-Mobile PC
VoIP – Voice over Internet Protocol
VZ – Verizon (US telephone carrier)
WoW – “World of Warcraft†(PC game)
WTF - What The F
y/o – Year old
ZOMG – same meaning as OMG, but used in a sarcastic manner
Alberto Gonzales – Former US Attorney General who served with many controversies, the biggest being the dismissal of 7 US Attorneys.
Andrew Sorcini – Number #1 Digger (username: MrBabyMan)
Alex Albrecht – Former TechTV co-host and co-host of Diggnation.
Barack Obama – Illinois Senator, 2008 US Democratic candidate.
Bill Gates – Co-founder, former CEO and chairman of Microsoft.
Jack Thompson – Florida attorney who is an activist against video games and the video game industry
John McCain – Arizona Senator, 2008 US Republican candidate.
Kevin Rose – Former TechTV co-host and co-founder of Digg.com, Revision3 and Pownce.
Linus Torvalds – Software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux.
Paul Allen – Co-founder of Microsoft.
Ron Paul – Republican United States Congressman who made a bid for presidency. Supporters are infamous for spamming Digg with positive Ron Paul stories and articles.
Steve Ballmer – CEO of Microsoft.
Steve Jobs – Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.
Steve Wozniak “Woz†– Co-founder of Apple.
Tay Zonday – Internet start who became famous for the video “Chocolate Rain.â€
1337 or ‘LEET’ - Elite (way to say you are better than something/someone)
360 – Xbox360 (Microsoft Video Game System) 
4chan – An imageboard website based primarily around the posting of pictures, many times tidiculous and alarming
700 MHz Spectrum – A US frequency band previously used for analog television broadcasting separated into 5 blocks for wireless usage
Android – Google’s software platform and operating system for mobile devices based on the Linux operating system.
BitTorrent - A content distribution protocol that enables efficient software distribution and peer-to-peer sharing of very large files.
Blogspam – When a blog copies an article or video from the original source and submits to Digg
Bury Brigade – A ‘mythical’ group of diggers who help to fight spam by burying submissions
Comic-Con – Largest comic book and popular arts convention in the world.
Diggnation – Weekly show featuring Alex Albrecht & Kevin Rose, or can refer to all diggers as a whole
Dupe – A duplicate submission of a story already submitted to Digg
EEpc – UMPC from ASU
EPIC FAIL – The FAIL of the item in question was of epic proportions.
FAIL – The item in question failed at its intent.
Frag – Kill
Jump The Shark – Something has either sold out or has become lame.
Leopard – Macintosh OS X v10.5
Linux – The most popular free Unix-type operating system
Mac Air – Ultrathin Macbook Air Notebook from Apple
MSI Wind – UMPC from MSI
nom nom nom aka oh nom – Used to describe something that is tasty 
noob – Short for newbie or someone that is a beginner
O RLY – “O, Really?†(Can be accompanied by a Snowy Owl) – Meant to be a sarcastic comment and is usually followed by a retort
Pirate Bay – The world’s largest bittorrent tracker
ROFLcon – internet culture conference
submit – short for submission (article, image or video)
teh – A typo for “the” that also stands for “the” however, it is used in the same manner that Spanish-speaking people use the word “El”
The Google – Used when describing Google, taken from George W. Bush
The Internets – Used when describing the Internet, taken from George W. Bush
Title Says It All – Used in the description when the submitter thinks that there is no description needed
PIC – Picture included in the submission
Pwned! – Owned, which means ‘dominated’
Revision3 – A San Francisco based Internet television network founded by Kevin Rose that creates, produces and distributes video shows on niche topics and produce ‘Diggnation.’
Slashdot – Digg-like technology related news site that was started in 1997
TXT – Text Message
Torrent – A ‘file’ that points to where you can download a file from using BitTorrent protocol. Multiple recipients supply different parts of the file for fast downloads.
Ubuntu – Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, and servers.
VID – Video included in the submission
Vista – Heavily criticized Microsoft OS released in 2007
WiMax – An Intel-backed wireless standard that has great bandwidth and range capability.
WOOT aka w00t- originally meant “wow, loot” in Dungeons and Dragons, now used as a term of excitement, also an online retailer
Wordpress – The most popular blogging software
All Your Base Belong to Us aka All Your Base – A broken English phrase taken from from the opening cutscene of the European Sega Mega Drive version of Zero Wing.
“Buddy -> Guy -> Friend†Comments – Dialogue from South Park long Canadian argument
C-c-c-combo Breaker – From the video game Killer Instinct, used in comments to break an on-point streak of comments
Chocolate Rain – Music video that launched Tay Zonday into internet stardom
Don’t Tase me, Bro! – University of Florida student comments while being tasered at John Kerry forum
Flying Spaghetti Monster – The deity of a parody religion called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and its system of beliefs, “Pastafarianism”
Grape Lady – A reporter who takes a spill and lets out a screech while stomping grapes
Goatse – Disturbing move in male pornographic videos
I Like Turtles – Zombie kid who says he likes turtles on camera
LOLcatz aka I can has cheeseburger? – Stupid, Funny & Cute cat pictures with ridiculous poorly spelled captions
Miss Teen South Carolina – Beauty queen who answered a pagent question very poorly. Also source of any “The Iraq†comments
OGC – Reference to a semi-inappropriate corporate logo (link) – usually used when pictures of attractive women appear on digg
Rick Roll or Rick Roll’d – Being offered a helpful link and instead sent to a the “Never Gonna Give You Up†Risk Astley Video
Two Girls One Cup aka 2girls1cup – One of web’s most disgusting pornographic videos that has been spoofed many times, even by the likes of John Mayer
Will it Blend – Viral videos from BlendTec featuring items getting shredded in a blender.
Where The Hell Is Matt – The travels of Matt Harding who journeys across the earth
“Whoo Whoo†– Ridiculous News clip from California featuring “Bubb Rubb & Lil’ Sis†about installing Whistle Tips on car exhausts
XKCD – Popular webcomic (link)
Hope you learned a thing or two on improving your comments, if you have any additional items to add to the list feel free to leave them in the comments!
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IMHO is “In my _humble_ opinion”. Sometimes used sarcastically.
this is a tremendous resource!!! but where’s ‘fap’?
@aaron according to urban dictionary and lots of other sources, the ‘h’ in IMHO can stand for either ‘honest’ or ‘humble’(or even ‘holy’)
ASL – Age Sex Location
PITA – Pain in the Ass
And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords
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Does no actually speak/type English anymore? Thanks for the dictionary.
The Ultimate Guide To Decoding Digg Speak…
On Digg, having something to say is only half the battle, knowing how to say it is the other half. This guides you to dissect the jargon, people and memes used in comments on a daily basis. Each section is broken down in detail to help you boost your D…
This is an excellent post. It cleared up a few things I have seen on Digg, but which flew right over my head.
common acronyms are very useful.
IAMNL something I find myself saying a fair bit before ranting about legal stuff “I am not a Lawyer”
You forgot FFS — For Fuck Sakes
Excellent! Now I can reed without having to ask
myself what it all means! Thanks
Slashdot is “Digg-like”? WTF? Were you born in 2000, or did Digg pay you for this article?
Most of the acronyms came from IM and SMS, while most of the geek jargon started on sites like Slashdot. And if anything, Digg is more similar to Fark or Fazed than Slashdot, except that:
- Fark & Fazed have little color-coded category indicators in the list, making it much more convienient to scan through.
- Fark & Fazed focus on cool/interesting/weird stuff. Digg is like Fark/Fazed meets news.google.com and people’s random boring bookmarks, leaving you sorting through the mess to find the good stuff.
- The amount of NSFW material is mysteriously much lower on Digg. Apparently the bury brigade are more uptight than the average geek.
As far as Internet geekdom goes, Digg is the mainstream – Fark and Fazed are where it’s at.
TLDR
This is stupid. There is no such thing as ‘Digg speak.’ The words used on Digg are just words that gained their etymologies from the INTERNET.
Stupid.
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