"Name our Style" voting follow-up

[aveleh]

So, ideas are in from the "Name our Style" challenge to find a name that reflected how basic the style is while being powerful enough to let the designers go wild when submitting styles. It's time for you to vote, so please mark your five favourites. If you check any more, they may get discarded in the spreadsheet. Instead, send your friends over to help boost your favourites.

Because the list was a manageable size, I generated the poll using all suggestions without checking their viability, and some of them (as pointed out in comments) have religious connotations which make them ineligible for use.

Poll #140 Style

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 403

View Respondents

Please check up to five of your favourite options from the styles below. Note that if you choose more than five, those choices might be discarded.

View Answers

A Lotta Style
15 (3.7%)

Adapt
63 (15.6%)

Apt
8 (2.0%)

Asana
8 (2.0%)

Ashtanga
5 (1.2%)

Auspicious
18 (4.5%)

Batsheet
34 (8.4%)

Battle Royale
24 (6.0%)

Blank Slate
87 (21.6%)

Caesar
8 (2.0%)

Canvas
146 (36.2%)

Cascade
35 (8.7%)

Core Warp
45 (11.2%)

Crepuscular
10 (2.5%)

Dilithium
25 (6.2%)

Dream Garden
33 (8.2%)

Dreamcatcher
43 (10.7%)

Dreamcatching
7 (1.7%)

Dreamscapes
126 (31.3%)

Dreamspace
56 (13.9%)

Dreamsweep
12 (3.0%)

Dreamvision
22 (5.5%)

DreamZen
24 (6.0%)

Energized
5 (1.2%)

Flex
59 (14.6%)

Flow
39 (9.7%)

Free Form
61 (15.1%)

Imagination
23 (5.7%)

Memetic Mutations
16 (4.0%)

Morphos
27 (6.7%)

Multifarious
11 (2.7%)

Mutabilis
21 (5.2%)

Mutable
52 (12.9%)

OMGPONIES
68 (16.9%)

OmniDream
12 (3.0%)

Proteus
38 (9.4%)

Square One
67 (16.6%)

Stylish
19 (4.7%)

Tabula Rasa
164 (40.7%)

Vanilla
51 (12.7%)

Zenwidth
63 (15.6%)

Zimba
7 (1.7%)

Comments

[zoniduck]

I used one of my votes for Dreamscapes, but I really wish Dreamscape (singular) was an option. The plural version seems kinda awkward.

[laitaine]

Ditto. I LOVE the dreamscape(s) idea, but I think it works better in the singular.

[inarticulate]

Thirding this; I don't mind Dreamscapes, but I prefer Dreamscape.

[nonethefewer]

I agree with this.  "Dreamscape" like "Canvas" - "Canvases" would sound similarly incorrect.

[lapillus]

Singular would definitely be the way to go.

[phoenixsong]

+1 to all the above reasons for making it singular.

[autumnjoy.livejournal.com]

I agree. :)

[goss]

Same here.

[nostariel]

Another +1 for the singular version.

[forestgreen]

I also voted for "Dreamscape(s)" because I love the idea, but would like the singular form better. So add me to the count.

[piano]

+1 for Dreamscape!

[citymusings]

This.

[rydra_wong]

I hate to raise this, but "Zen" in names makes me twitchy, given that it's actually some people's religion; it's sort of problematic to use it as a synonym for "stylishly bare".

("Asana" and "Ashtanga" may raise similar problems, given that yoga's a spiritual practice for many people.)

[aveleh]

Thank you; those are great points. I didn't filter the suggestions at all before creating the poll, but when making a final decision on the name that will definitely be a deciding factor. Comments like this help to ensure we don't make people uncomfortable with our choices.

I'll edit the post, as well.

[rydra_wong]

*breathes a sigh of relief*

Thanks for listening. Obviously I'm sure it wasn't intentional on anyone's part, and I know that they're used colloquially all the time, but I wanted to flag it up because I'm guessing I'm not the only one who twitches.

("Dreamcatcher"/"Dreamcatching" is the other one I just noticed, dreamcatchers being specific to Native American tradition.)

[milkymoon]

...funny, I was thinking the same thing about the dreamcatcher one.

[spiralsheep]

"Dreamcatcher" irritates me more than the zen option but I'd srsly prefer neither and I suspect "dreamcatcher" would provoke a significant reaction (probably including the word "fail" somewhere in its vicinity).

ETA: The account which suggested "dreamcatcher" (here) is notably empty:

http://sardonyx2009.livejournal.com/profile

[aveleh]

Thank you for pointing this out. I'd like to assure you that just having one person point out that a name is problematic is enough to remove it from the list of viable candidates. It would not matter who made the suggestion or why. I apologize for not having considered the options carefully before making the poll.

[spiralsheep]

You're welcome. It's easy to switch off one's critical faculties when aggregating data. I appreciate your response.

[aveleh]

No, thank you for pointing it out. I rushed to get this poll out before the date changed, which meant that I asked someone else to collect all the suggested names without filtering them or counting how many votes it got, and then I ended up just dumping it into a spreadsheet to alphabetize and add code. This isn't intended to be an excuse; I just want to make clear that the mistake was all mine.

I assure you that any name that has religious or spiritual connotations, or makes someone uncomfortable (as opposed to them just not liking the way it sounds) will not be used to name a style. I apologize that I didn't notice these earlier, and hope that there are not any others that I did not recognize as problematic.

[vivi]

Ha, the Zen made me twitch too! I've heard way too many lectures from my Japanese religions teacher not to react to it. :)

(This is way late, but oh well.)

[snapelike.livejournal.com]

I really like dreamscape too, without the plural. Voted for the plural nevertheless.
I am not sure, however, that I like the ones with any religious undertones (no matter which), although they are very pretty names.

[ranalore]

I'd like to add another vote for Dreamscape rather than Dreamscapes.

[cheyinka]

S1 is not available on Dreamwidth and almost-certainly never will be - "Maintaining and documenting S1 is a lot of work that we would rather put into updating and fixing the newer S2 system. This will never be available on Dreamwidth." to quote the wiki. (http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=10)

[ivles]

wow, tabula rasa has many voters, it reminds me of tabulas.com

Style question

[qarukhel]

Is there a community on DW where I can post a style editing question?

Re: Style question

[vivi]

I suspect you should try dreamwidthlayouts or mintyapple.

Re: Style question

[rosefox]

Both of those communities state very clearly in their profiles that they are not help communities. I'm about ready to start one that is a help community, because there's going to be a big need for one as all the unpaid users discover S2.

Re: Style question

[valiha]

Second this! I would love a help comm where I could ask questions. If you don't mind, and because I haven't found the answer to this anywhere, I have one now: does Transmogrified have a free text box? Because I would love one to put some stuff in.

Re: Style question

[rosefox]

Looks like someone started one while I was thinking about this: style_system.

Re: Style question

[rosefox]

Try style_system.

[corvus]

I think Flex isn't a suitable name for a website style because it is already the name of website-related software. Adobe Flex is "a collection of technologies released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform".

[quixoticjade.livejournal.com]

ooh, good point. i agree.