VS Battles Glossary

==Introduction==
This page will focus on providing some insight about commonly used terms here on the Vs Battles Wiki and on the external Vs Battles Wiki Forum. While some of these terms are exclusive to our platform, you may see some of these terms being used in other community-based discussion forums. 
==Terms==
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"Scans" 	Scans are, for all intents and purposes, pieces of evidence. Typically, they are screenshots or gifs uploaded to Fandom and/or imgur. When making a claim about a character, concept, or verse you are expected to provide scans that back up your claims.
"Key" 	A version of a character, with a distinct level of power and/or skillset, noteworthy enough to be considered a deviation in overall ability from other versions of the character.
"OP" 	OP is an abbreviation for "Original Poster." When someone references the OP, they are referring to the statements made by the original poster in the first post of a thread.
"Sandbox" 	A sandbox is a type of page on the wiki that allows users to "freely explore character profiles, develop code, create an explanatory page, or engage in any desired experimentation without the risk of unwarranted edits to existing pages or violating regulations." Please see here for more information.
"Bump" 	If a thread lacks input from the community, you can type “Bump” (short for “Bring Up My Post”) to try and give it more attention.
"FRA" 	FRA is an abbreviation for "For Reasons Above." You will often see users saying "Agree FRA" or "Disagree FRA" in relation to a thread, meaning, they disagree or agree with said thread based on reasons already highlighted by other users.
"Smurf" 	In this community it refers to characters that have abilities (notably Hax) that are of a higher dimensional and/or infinite scale than their physical bodies. For example, any characters that are physically between tiers 10-C to High 3-A with abilities that can affect tier 2 or tier 1 characters.
"Hax" 	Refers to abilities that often ignore conventional durability and levels of power, allowing users to overwhelm characters who would normally exceed them in terms of raw strength. Abilities that are often referred to as Hax include Reality Warping, Matter Manipulation, Death Manipulation, and similar abilities. Characters that utilize a large number of these abilities are often referred to as "haxed"
"Stomp" 	A stomp is a completely one-sided match-up where one participant absolutely thrashes the other with little to no effort. Please keep in mind that such match-ups are not allowed.
"RVR or RVT"	The “RVT” (Rule Violation Thread/Report) is a place to go to when a user has been misbehaving and/or you suspect them of being a sockpuppet of an already banned user.
"Necro" 	To post in a discussion thread that has been inactive for a long time. In most cases, it is probably best to create a new thread instead.
"WoG" 	An abbreviation for "Word of God." It represents Author, or editorial, statements about a certain franchise, and/or its characters. However, take note that if this heavily contradicts, rather than complements, reliable in-story statements or feats, we tend to disregard them.
"CRT" 	CRT is an abbreviation for Content Revision Thread; it refers to a type of thread that all users must create on our external forum to make any changes to the statistics on our pages.
"Layers" 	Layers or Layered ability refers to an ability that has a higher degree of potency as evidenced by its capacity to bypass its respective resistance.
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"AoE" 	An abbreviation for Area of Effect. Generally used to describe the magnitude of area covered by an attack.
"Nerf" 	When characters get their statistics dropped from the regular ratings.
"Buff" 	When characters get their statistics increased from their regular ratings. This is similar to "Nerf" but instead of their statistics being dropped, they turn stronger than before.
"NLF" 	Short for “No Limits Fallacy”, it refers to a particular logical fallacy in which something that has not demonstrated limits in its home story would not demonstrate limits in any other story. This is a frequently used fallacy and is thus extremely frowned upon.
"Plot Induced Stupidity" 	Often abbreviated as "PIS". Events in a story that contradict a character's normal capabilities for the purpose of the plot.
"Character Induced Stupidity"	Often abbreviated as "CIS," refers to the mental limits of a character that cause them to perform at below the true potential of their powers. See here for more information.
"Preparation Time" 	Preparation time, or preparation, is a period of time that allows one or both characters in a match to: build a weapon/device that will help defeat their opposition, research their opposition to learn their strengths and weaknesses, or to come up with a strategy that will help defeat the opposition. It has sometimes been shortened to "prep time" or "prep" instead, but this is heavily discouraged, as these are localised slang terms that can easily be misunderstood.
"Retcon" 	When a franchise decides that part of a story never happened due to plot conveniences.
"Composite" 	A character that combines the abilities and items from different versions to make a single character.
"SOL" 	An abbreviation for "Speed of Light." See here for more information.
"FTL" 	An abbreviation for "Faster Than Light." See here for more information.
"Outlier" 	When a character performs a feat that is generally considered way above or below their usual level of power. See here for more information
"Game Mechanics" 	Using Health Points (commonly referred to as HP) and similar statistics to scale characters. This also includes illogical features, such as not being able to climb objects, or dying when entering deep water.
"UES" 	An abbreviation for Universal Energy Systems
"Downplayer" 	A person who ignores character statistics or feats. This is similar to a "wanker" but instead of trying to increase character statistics, they tend to do the opposite and try to make a character or verse seem weak out of hatred.
"Wanker" 	A term used to describe users who inflate character or verse statistics to massive levels over faulty logic or vague evidence. The use of this term is generally frowned upon.
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