Tagging Jargon

TF2Tags has a host of terms, phrases, and in-jokes that anyone outside of or just entering the community will likely not understand and leave confused. This page will serve as a dictionary for several common words in the Tagging Lexicon.

## Dictionary

* **Anon** - A user who is using the Anonymous feature on the original TF2Tags. Not present since May of 2015.
* **Bucket Joke** - A variation of the often meme'd "This is a bucket" line from TF2 SFM movie *Expiration Date*.
* **CAH** - Abbreviation for Cards Against Humanity.
* **Carpetbomb** - A type of missbomb with no discriminate target. A carpetbomb targets any and all tags on the front page, random page, or where ever.
* **Crit** - A like or upvote on a submission, named for the original site using a button with the Critical Hit indicator from TF2. Can also be used as a verb.
* **Critbomb** - Mass upvoting of a user's submissions to inflate their score, typically done in response to Missbombs.
* **Critnuke** - An extreme Critbomb, where one or multiple taggers massively upvote every single submission of a user to inflate their score by thousands of points. Most famously used on Makin' Bacon to get him to the top of the original site's nonexistent leaderboard.
* **Comment Limit** - Number of comments a user is allowed to make per day. Employed on the original site following the Great Comment Crash of January 2016. Not present on Tags.tf.
* **Faction** - A (generally) organized group of users united under a single banner or idea. For example: the Wahfia.
* **Generation** - A categorization of users that share particular characteristics that became Major Taggers in a specific period of time. Currently, there are 5 Generations of Taggers.
* **Hale's Own** - The highest attainable profile rank, requiring at least 8500 collective points on a user's submissions. Reaching Hale's Own is the end goal for the majority of users, and can be seen as TF2Tags's primary objective.
* **Leave And Never Come Back (LANCB)** - To (often emotionally) publicly declare that you are leaving the site and its community and will never return. Often mocked, as those who Leave And Never Come Back almost always do, typically within a week, or even a day.
* **Major Tagger** - A user who has attained a certain amount of recognition within the community, generally through attaining many crits, participating in the community for a significant period of time, etc.
* **Maximum Overdrive** - The signature meme of Smash Z. References the line "You'll never catch me, Krabs! Not when I shift into Maximum Overdrive!" spoken by Sheldon J. Plankton. Often parodied by other taggers.
* **Minor Tagger** - A user that is worthy of being mentioned and having a page on the wiki for one reason or another, but is not classified as a Major Tagger.
* **Miss** - A dislike or downvote on a submission, named for the original site using a button with the Miss indicator from TF2. Can also be used as a verb.
* **Missbomb** - Mass downvoting of a user's submissions to deflate their score, typically done out of personal dislike for the victim or to stir chaos on the site.
* **Missnuke** - An extreme Missbomb, where one or multiple taggers massively downvote every single submission of a user to deflate their score by thousands of points. Most famously employed by TGRobert under the guise of Endiome against Makin' Bacon and other taggers.
* **Negative <Rank>** - The negative equivalent of a profile rank, attained when a user achieves an equivalent number of Misses. For example, -8500 points would be Negative Hale's Own. Officially employed as a feature in Tags.tf.
* **Noice** - Catchphrase of Shakkari, who leaves this comment on every single tag he finds to be "noice".
* **Permaban** - Permanent Ban. A ban (typically lasting ten years or until 2050) that lasts so long that it would outlive the site it was given by, effectively erasing that user from the site.
* **Profile Rank** - The rank of a user on their profile page, corresponding to the number of points they have. Ranks are based on the TF2 Strange Ranks, specifically the ones used on the majority of weapons.
* **Relk'd** - To do the same joke as someone else, and to have the original joker showcase that they had done it before. Named because of how prevalent it was for people to do jokes already done by Relk\_Cehi, who would post links to the original joke.
* **Representative Item** - An item used to represent a user in a tag.
* **Series** - A number of interconnected sets, typically as a means to tell a narrative or parody a show.
* **Set** - A post that uses more than one item.
* **Shitstorm** - Typically used to refer to a drama-based event in the community, full of toxic arguments and fighting between two or more users that takes center stage on the site until it ends.
* **Shitposter** - A user who intentionally makes bad tags with the attempt of inciting some kind of reaction.
* **Submission Limit** - The number of posts a user is allowed to make per day, based upon their number of points. On Tags.tf, it is how long a user must wait before posting again, which is typically a few minutes.
* **Tag** - A post or submission.
* **Tagger** - A user of TF2Tags or Tags.tf
* **Tagger's Block** - Tagging version of Writer's Block. A condition in which a tagger is just unable to come up with any tag ideas.
* **TAH** - Abbreviation for Taggers Against Humanity, the Steam Group and custom Cards Against Humanity deck for Taggers to play CAH with.
* **TF2NNN** - Abbreviation for the TF2Tags Nightly News Network.
* **Tweet Tag** - A tag that serves more as a social media post than an actual item rename one would use in TF2.