forum currency

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:05 pm

Edit: the poll is now closed! The currency is now officially called Ice Cubes

I think our current forum currency name needs a more original name. We don't really use this yet, but I'm working on it.

(also need to get that UD stat thing completed, I've missed two fridays in a row now.

)

Right now it's called "ITbucks", but I find it's too close to "bitbucks" which is what our ennemies at bitbender tech use, and I don't want to make it look like I just copied off of them. The original idea came from them, but I'm turning it more into a super feature that will beat theirs once we have more features attached to it.

So if anyone has any ideas what we should call our currency, shoot!

I was thinking maybe something like "acorns" or something. Or maybe "ice cubes" but if we can find something that sounds more like a currency it will be good, but on the other hand if we can find a popular word, we'll get better search engine ranking when it's typed.

But I rather get something original, so any ideas you have, post them here! Even if you doubt it will be good, post anyway, it could lead to a better idea.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 5:55 am

How about "frozen assets" or "cold cash" or "icicles"

Sorry, my first post here!! That's the best I can come up with yet

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 1:32 pm

Hey welcome, those sounds like good ideas. Let's keep them coming. Something along the "ice" theme is exactly what I'd like.

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 2:54 pm

cool bucks, ice bucks

I like "cold cash" too, as sugarjay suggested.

Hi sugarjay,

welcome!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 2:58 pm

Cold, hard cash. yep that sounds good. Let's keep 'em coming. Maybe for cold hard cash we can call it CHCs

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 3:04 pm

I can't think of anything but the moment (

), but I like the sound of Icicles.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:31 pm

I just thought of another one...

frosties, or Kelvins (unit of measurement in chemistry when working with very cold things)

I think I'll add a poll soon and we can vote.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 8:55 pm

Ok, vote vote vote!!!

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 9:03 pm

I like Icicles.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 10:54 am

I kinda like Ice Cubes, partly because it can be shortened to ICs, which seems kinda nifty to me, as long as no one confuses them with integrated circuits

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 12:49 pm

Hmm well since this is a tech site, they can be frozen integrated circuits, as in frozen inside an ice cube. Hmmm sounds interesting.

No matter what though, the symbol is still going to be $ to keep things simple, but the name will be whatever we vote for. I really like ice cubes too, I think that's what I'll go with, but the poll is still open for more votes if we can break the tie.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 4:15 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: No matter what though, the symbol is still going to be $ to keep things simple, but the name will be whatever we vote for. I really like ice cubes too, I think that's what I'll go with, but the poll is still open for more votes if we can break the tie.

I dunno. I think it might be a good idea to change the symbol too. I mean you could just throw a little ice cube icon in with the smilies and use that. It would just makes things a little more interesting and drive home the fact that this is fake forum money and not anything of any real value.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:11 pm

manadren wrote:
Red Squirrel wrote: No matter what though, the symbol is still going to be $ to keep things simple, but the name will be whatever we vote for. I really like ice cubes too, I think that's what I'll go with, but the poll is still open for more votes if we can break the tie.
I dunno. I think it might be a good idea to change the symbol too. I mean you could just throw a little ice cube icon in with the smilies and use that. It would just makes things a little more interesting and drive home the fact that this is fake forum money and not anything of any real value.

Hmm that's true. I can just replace

with the image, (not $ in case we do talk about real money

) and it will be made easy to use.

I'll have to change it in the cybervillage in every single situation programmed but that's fine. Will do. (replace function does not work in this case... php uses $ as a prefix to variables

)

I think I'll finilize the decision and we can call it ICs for ice cubes, what does everyone else think?

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 6:03 pm

That's fine with me.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 6:29 pm

Wren wrote: That's fine with me.

+1

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:15 pm

Sounds like a plan

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:24 pm

Now, to create a new symbol. I want to keep it small enough to fit well in text, and here it is.

To display it simply use two $'s put together.

What do you think?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:58 pm

I noticed it's not easy to make an image look good with text because of different text sizes, so I'll just try to not over use it. We either refer to them as Ice Cubes / ICs or put the image but never both.

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