spod

Dictionary: spod (spŏd) pronunciation

n. Chiefly British Slang
One who spends an inordinate amount of time exchanging remarks in computer chatrooms or participating in discussions in newsgroups or on bulletin boards.

[Origin unknown.]

spodding spod'ding n.

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1. A lower form of life found on talker systems and MUDs. The spod has few friends in RL and uses talkers instead, finding communication easier and preferable over the net. He has all the negative traits of the computer geek without having any interest in computers per se. Lacking any knowledge of or interest in how networks work, and considering his access a God-given right, he is a major irritant to sysadmins, clogging up lines in order to reach new MUDs, following passed-on instructions on how to sneak his way onto Internet (“Wow! It's in America!”) and complaining when he is not allowed to use busy routes. A true spod will start any conversation with “Are you male or female?” (and follow it up with “Got any good numbers/IDs/passwords?”) and will not talk to someone physically present in the same terminal room until they log onto the same machine that he is using and enter talk mode. Compare newbie, tourist, weenie, twink, terminal junkie, warez d00dz.

2. A backronym for “Sole Purpose, Obtain a Degree”; according to some self-described spods, this term is used by indifferent students to condemn their harder-working fellows. Compare the defiant adoption of the term geek in the mid-1990s by people who would previously have been stigmatized by it. Spods in the positive sense are talker users who've accumulated a large amount of spod time, that is, they spend a lot of time logged in to that talker (for example, my spod time on Uberworld as of this moment is 131 days, 15 hours and 20 minutes). Spods are generally highly knowledgeable about talkers and SGXStalker coding, as well as computers and the internet in general.

3. [Glasgow University] An otherwise competent hacker who spends way too much time on talker systems.

4. [obs.] An ordinary person; a random. This is the meaning with which the term was coined, but the inventor informs us he has himself accepted sense 1.

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For the indie/electroclash band from Sydney, Australia, see Spod (band). For the Spinning Pinwheel of Death, or Spinning Pizza of Death, see Spinning wait cursor.

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Spod is used to refer to a person who uses ew-too-style talkers. The spod tends to be something of a long-term fanatic; many have been using the same talker for a decade or more by now. Talkers are significantly easier to run than an average MUD, since they do not incorporate very much artificial intelligence automation, and they are usually much more user friendly since fighting is rarely the focus. Thus whole social groups such as families, friends, and coworkers have been known to spod. see: Talker#The culture of talkers They also use very little network traffic, and use simple protocols, making them ideal for setting up quietly at work. Some of the early Talker applications were used to play Dungeons & Dragons over computer networks.

In recent years some internet users have begun to use the word spod as a verb (spodding) to mean the action of sitting at a computer on the internet, and wasting time.^{[citation needed]}

"Spodding" is also a specific common verb used in fishing to denote the use of a "Spod" or "Spod Rocket" to deliver loose feed for fish to a specific area of a water or river for the purposes of fishing. The "Spod" is normally a container with a nose cone and fins to guide trajectory. The "Spod" is cast via a strong rod, the usual intention being pinpoint accuracy at even long ranges. Upon impact the "Spod" up ends due to its buoyant nose cone and deposits particle bait in the desired position. The technique is standard procedure for carp anglers in the UK and overseas.

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Eric Raymond et al.. ""Spod"". The Jargon File. http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/S/spod.html. Retrieved 2006-03-07.

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