Glossary
From FreecycleFAQ
Common Abbreviations / Acronyms and Their Meanings
The following acronyms are commonly used on Freecycle™
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| addy | address |
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| BOD | Board of Directors |
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| cache or clearing your cache | removing copies of webpages, images, and media that are saved for faster viewing |
| cafe or Freecycle cafe | a place where Freecycle members can chat about all things Freecycle, offer up local resources and make new friends of a similar mindset; keeping our landfills free of usable items and building a worldwide movement of gifting |
| cookies | files stored on your computer by websites to save preferences |
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| EF | Ersatzfriend is commonly used as a neutral backup CO-owner on Freecycle lists. |
| EULA | Short for End-User License Agreement, the type of license used for most software. An EULA is a legal contract between the manufacturer and/or the author and the end user of an application. |
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| FC | FC - Freecycle - "Our mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community." |
| fiod | fiod - Freecycle Indie / On-site Discussion group |
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| GO | Group Owner (Also Lead Moderator) |
| GOA | Group Outreach and Assistance is there to help group mods that have problems they need to resolve. Overlap? They figure it out with the local mods. Abandoned group? Sales offer being allowed? The GOA has the authority and experience to be the final arbiter of any and every issue out there. |
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| HUB | A team which consists of the lead mods of each volunteer team which includes the Mod Squad, Tech Team, Interim Mods, Back Office, Group Outreach and Assistance, and the New Group Approvers. |
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| Interim | in between, transitional, or temporary. |
| IMOD | Interim Moderator is just what the name implies. This team takes over orphaned and abandoned groups, and manages parallel groups until a local moderator can be found and trained. ( More information) |
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| LM | Lead Moderator (of a Freecycle group) |
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| MF | My Freecycle - http://my.freecycle.org ( More information) |
| MM | Mentor Mods - ( More information) |
| MMods | Mentor Mods - ( More information) |
| MOD | Moderator (of a Freecycle group) |
| MS | Modsquad - The Modsquad is a group in the US as well as for those countries who haven't opted to vote in their own forums to discuss issues, share information and ideas, and to discuss the occasional rule adaptations. |
| MRA | Moderator Resource Assistance |
| MYF | My Freecycle - http://my.freecycle.org ( More information) |
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| NGA | The New Group Approver has the authority to help potential new groups get their ducks in a row and to either approve or deny their request for a new group. These fine people help avoid overlap with existing groups and make sure that the new group moderators are on the right path |
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| OIDG | The Org Issues Discussion Group focuses on issues central to the ongoing development of Freecycle.org. It is a separate yahoo group started by a vote from Mod Squad members to remove organizational issues from within the Mod Squad group. |
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| PPU | Pending Pickup (not recommended but is used on some member lists) |
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| Reseller | Occasionally list members will reply to offers or post wanteds for items they do not intend to use personally. Whether they resell or redistribute the item, for their own profit or not, these members are termed resellers for purposes of this list. |
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| STC | Subject to Collection (not recommended but is used on some member lists) |
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| TFN | The Freecycle Network | |
| TM | Trademark | |
| TOS | Terms Of Service | |
| Trading (for Brits) | This is a confusing rule for us Brits because the Americans mean something different when they say trading. They tend to mean swapping. In fact, members who are traders (i.e. sell items away from Freecycle) CAN be members and they CAN even get items with the intention of selling them on, although some groups choose to prohibit this | Trademark |
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| UKMS | The UK Modsquad is a Group for UK based moderators to discuss issues and queries on. |
