(2022-06-01 23:55)Jadeeyedwere Wrote: [ -> ](2022-06-01 22:08)fenrich Wrote: [ -> ]While I agree wholeheartedly that we're absolutely drowning in terms, I do feel like it's important to have a compilation somewhere of what these terms meant(even if outdated, although I do feel some accuracy is to be gained at some points). I've often found in communities that I have absolutely no idea what people are talking about when using older terminology, and when I try to find any info about it there's absolutely no way for me to understand what was being said, especially if it's an older/outdated post.
A lot of these terms being used aren't official terms thus I personally find it impractical and unnecessary to document. Amino isn't the community and a lot of social media "therian" platforms use a lot of fluffy terms such as these, because they are not moderated by the greater community and often times push out the older, educated members of the community for ridiculous reasons. So I don't find it relevant to document "how therianthropy has changed over time" when the greater community do not use these said terms, nor are they considered official.
True! I suppose I tend to give ppl the benefit of the doubt more often than not, and I'm not too well versed on the history of a lot of these terms, so I wasn't sure which were genuinely coined by older, experienced therians(i.e terms like M-Shift) and which were made more recently by the younger folk trying to split off from the rest. I do still think it'd be interesting to see documents of genuine terminology and where they originated, which was my main point in the original post!