Our lovely chatroom is currently sitting there with a terribly generic name: Software Recommendations.
What should we name it?
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2Yay, bikeshedding! I actually think the generic name is okay, isn’t it? Call it “Software Recommendations.SE site chat” for now.,– mirabilosCommented Feb 5, 2014 at 16:06
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Ah, there it is! #D– IzzyCommented Feb 8, 2014 at 0:05
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Especially since the site itself has a terribly generic name :)– EnjabainCommented Feb 10, 2014 at 16:26
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Soft wrecks
(ha-ha-only-serious)
answered Feb 5, 2014 at 1:26
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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1I suggest adding a "The" at the beginning. Sounds more like a place then.– SethCommented Feb 5, 2014 at 6:23
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Great minds think alike. I made this joke just hours earlier.– Tim Post StaffCommented Feb 5, 2014 at 6:57
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Took me a few secs. After getting the joke: What's the "K" for, Jay... ahem, G?– IzzyCommented Feb 8, 2014 at 0:07
Thought of this overnight...
The Rec Center
It's not perfectly matched to our topic, but it sounds kinda good. Maybe it'll give some people inspiration to come up with something better!
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Like. This is my favorite proposal so far. Commented Feb 9, 2014 at 14:54
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Sounds inviting too (although I also like Software Rex).– user416Commented Oct 29, 2014 at 15:22
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1In the meantime Hardware Recommendations grabbed the name. Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 8:31
Software Rex
The meanest, biggest bad ass chat room on the plains.
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1I like this, but not as a chat room name. A chat room name should evoke a place or an audience (“The Bridge”, “The DMZ”, “Mos Eisley”, “The Hangar”, “The Screening Room”, “Chez Cosette”, …), not a creature. Commented Feb 5, 2014 at 17:38
I tried to make a joke about swrecs in reference to Sean Connery on Jeopardy saying "schwords" (like swords) for "S Words" when talking about the category of questions pertaining to "S Words". I failed. Couldn't think of anything pithy -- all the pith got stolen by Robert's answer above. Seriously, "Software Rex"? That's a whole mouthful of pith. ;x
I was thinking of the extremely lame, pun-free name Word of Mouth. I have to explain it for it to make any sense, so it's probably bad, but once you get it, it kind of tickles. A little. Maybe.
So there are often surveys on registration forms or purchase forms for software online, which ask "How did you hear about us?" or "How did you hear about X product?", and one of the choices is "Word of Mouth".
Well.
It would seem fitting that people would hear about their software literally in the "Word of Mouth" channel about this site, or from the site itself, and then go buy that software.
Not funny, right? Oh well. I tried.
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I like
Word of Mouth, (although the german equivalent, translates likeMouthpropaganda, would be cooler somehow) Commented Feb 8, 2014 at 9:36 -
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The Suggestion Box
I can't take credit for this one, someone else came up with it.
Control F
Well known key combination, where Control can have the meaning as in Control Room too. And F can mean multiple things :)
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Ouch, need to correct myself: F7 would be a better fit than F1. Or "F1-F7" for "HelpMe-Find"?– IzzyCommented Feb 8, 2014 at 0:25
The Warehouse
Because we serve (Soft)Warezs and will soon have lots of them.
Warehouse 101 sounds cool too, somehow.
Softwarehouse
Because software, house, and warehouse in one.
Much soft
So fluffy. Very recommended.
This name also means that there is a lot of software around, implying that it is sometimes difficult to find the best match.
(variation on Angelo's answer)
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This is so cheesy, but somehow I love it.– user46Commented Sep 11, 2015 at 3:56
Fluffy recommends
I just think that Software should have been called Fluffyware in the first place. I mean "soft" is such a boring word, ain't it?