where did the term "nef" come from?

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Kaiser__Sose

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Originally posted by: Digobick
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: KLin
back in the day of yore when butter thread's were prevalent, and everyone was a WMC, there was a user named Nef. He got banned for "neffing", and the term stuck.
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I assume when you say "butter threads" you mean pictures of girls and "But her...." ?

What's a WMC?
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A user named Nowhereman started a thread in Nov. '98 debating whether or not butter should be left sitting out or refrigerated. Many people chimed in their opinion, and the thread ballooned to over 400 posts rather quickly. Mind you, this is when there was only a few hundred registered users on Anandtech, and at the time this was by far the largest thread anyone had ever seen (it grew to around 800 posts). It was the stuff that legends were made of, my friend.

Your second question is also valid. When Anandtech was still relatively small, Buy.com mispriced a 19" Hitachi monitor to $187.00 (original price was around $350). Word spread on Anandtech - and the Internet as a whole - like wildfire (this was why the Hot Deals forum was created). When Buy.com said they were only going to honor the first 150 orders (out of 10,000+), hundreds of users flocked here to cry "fowl." Many users here felt Buy.com had no responsibility to honor the wrong price, so they would often take stabs at those who felt "ripped off." Thus, the Wounded Monitor Children name was created (by Russ I believe?) to desribe those who whined and cried like babies about not getting their monitor. In the end, Buy.com was forced to send out checks for $47 to everyone who ordered to settle the dispute.
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haahah.. i remember both the butter thread and the wmc situation rather vividly.... that was back in the day when errors on internet sites were rather common.. and discount "codes" were allowed in the hot deals forums.

what was d name of d company that Anandtech hot forums help sink. they offered $100 of credit with up to %50 off items?? that was another hot topic in hot deals.
 
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cmdavid

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anybody think the actual user "nef" knows that his name has become infamous?
 
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Pandaren

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I vaguely remember that "nef" came to be an acronym for "Need Elite Fast," although posting useless garbage was and still is probably the least effective way to gain "Elite" status.
 
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badmouse

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Looks up from the computer - oh, yes, there is still a world out there.

One of the signs of the changing seasons is this question being asked. Ah. Thanks for the reminder.
 
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TheShiz

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Originally posted by: Kaiser__Sose
Originally posted by: Digobick
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: KLin
back in the day of yore when butter thread's were prevalent, and everyone was a WMC, there was a user named Nef. He got banned for "neffing", and the term stuck.
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I assume when you say "butter threads" you mean pictures of girls and "But her...." ?

What's a WMC?
Click to expand...
A user named Nowhereman started a thread in Nov. '98 debating whether or not butter should be left sitting out or refrigerated. Many people chimed in their opinion, and the thread ballooned to over 400 posts rather quickly. Mind you, this is when there was only a few hundred registered users on Anandtech, and at the time this was by far the largest thread anyone had ever seen (it grew to around 800 posts). It was the stuff that legends were made of, my friend.

Your second question is also valid. When Anandtech was still relatively small, Buy.com mispriced a 19" Hitachi monitor to $187.00 (original price was around $350). Word spread on Anandtech - and the Internet as a whole - like wildfire (this was why the Hot Deals forum was created). When Buy.com said they were only going to honor the first 150 orders (out of 10,000+), hundreds of users flocked here to cry "fowl." Many users here felt Buy.com had no responsibility to honor the wrong price, so they would often take stabs at those who felt "ripped off." Thus, the Wounded Monitor Children name was created (by Russ I believe?) to desribe those who whined and cried like babies about not getting their monitor. In the end, Buy.com was forced to send out checks for $47 to everyone who ordered to settle the dispute.
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haahah.. i remember both the butter thread and the wmc situation rather vividly.... that was back in the day when errors on internet sites were rather common.. and discount "codes" were allowed in the hot deals forums.

what was d name of d company that Anandtech hot forums help sink. they offered $100 of credit with up to %50 off items?? that was another hot topic in hot deals.
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Value America, i couldn't believe some of the deals I got from that site.
 
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Tom

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Originally posted by: Kaiser__Sose
haha.. yea.. Value America.. the good ol days.
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yea just the other day I was packing up an old printer and there it was, the old Value America shipping label..
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Kenazo

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Originally posted by: badmouse
Looks up from the computer - oh, yes, there is still a world out there.

One of the signs of the changing seasons is this question being asked. Ah. Thanks for the reminder.
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dude, you've only been here for 5 months, surely you haven't heard it that many times.
 
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