ranking system is live

Hi everyone,

Although I was going to be out of touch this week, I do feel compelled to weigh-in on the use of "mojo" on a children's site.  I agree with Rita that it has no place here.  

Here is the definition from the urban dictionary:  

Mojo

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The word originally means a charm or a spell. But now its more commonly said meaning sex appeal or talent. "I can get any girl if I just use a bit of the old mojo"  "Man, that girl has MOJO!"  "God help me, I think I've lost my mojo!"

When I put "mojo" in a thesarus search, it came up with two entries: cocaine and heroin.

I think this says it all.  Is this the image we want EToys to project to the world?  I think there might be a few naive teachers who don't know the meanings, but will soon when bombarded with parents upset by the use of the word.

Even though karma is being used by unix geeks, I wouldn't use that word either, but would certainly prefer it to mojo.  I think it is entirely inappropriate to use mojo on this site.  Please send me a ballot so that I can vote No on mojo!

Cathie

On Sep 23, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Timothy Falconer wrote:

Hi everyone,

The "mojo filter" ranking system is live.  There are likely still kinks.

A brief description can be found here:

http://squeakland.org/showcase/mojo.jsp

To receive ballots, you must have an account and you must click "send me ballots".

For those that received the first wave of ballots, the screenshot link was bad, but is hopefully now fixed.

Have fun,
Tim


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