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PLEASE READ! for the people who can't figure out - what SM and NM mean!

Posted: Dec 17, 2012

I'm sorry, but there's a thread below where someone is calling out the user "SM". LMAO!

SM MEANS: short message, small message, or see message. Pick whichever you prefer.

It's been used on message boards practically since Al Gore invented the internet! (lol)

I was told it meant "see message", while others have been told it's is one of the other 2 meanings. However, the overall meaning is the same. It means "Hey, there's a message inside, so please read it!"

NM means: NO MESSAGE! It's telling people, "hey! I didn't write anything inside so don't bother clicking on it!"

If you are one of the 98% of people who already know this, please don't post a bunch of insults since this is not directed at you. I'm putting this up for the 2% who ask this question on a weekly basis, or who make nasty threads addressed to "SM" who verbally attacked them!

Now that I think about it, we need a sticky thread with this information because no doubt it will keep happening.

Your post is funny. I always laugh when I see a message marked NM with 100+ views. NM - anon

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yeah unless there are 100 replies under it - lol

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just scrolled down the page and it's hilarious how many "nm" posts have 50, 70, 100 views, even if there isn't a single reply to it! I guess the 98% was a bad guess of how many people know what those mean.

I click on nm's so the color will change. - sm

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Makes it easier for me to scan the board when I return to see exactly where the new posts are, since they're the ones in blue.

I do that too... - like the purple

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I like knowing which ones I read.

Same here. nm. - Dewey.

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: )

And ya gotta open to like or dislike as well (NM) - :-)

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See? ;-)

My - color

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doesn't change anymore, not sure why. It is a pain in the you know what. Can somebody tell me what setting I might need to check.

go into tools and delete browsing history - then will change to purple again

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NM

Well, look - at that

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I see purple again. Thank you very much. This has been driving me crazy.

My Christmas gift to you - then will change to purple again

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Its the thought that counts! :)

Happy Holidays.

Thank you - and

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Happy Holidays to you also. It was a very thoughtful gift. I can see purple again.

But, hey. There's also some posters who use - backwards typist

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SM and NM as their moniker and who refuse to use anything else.

So, it's not always the case that you state, and is a waste of time to open an SM just to see a period or symbol.

SM and NM - hammaga

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hate to tell you, but it is actually "some more" and "no more" (comments)

potato -- poTAHto...all SPUDS. - NM

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sorry honey, you're the one that's wrong - google is your friend

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These have been used on message boards forever and originally were SM for short message, LM for long message, and NM for no message. Over time LM has stopped being used because no one really cares if the link you are about to click on has a short or a long message. So SM was changed to mean "see message" to the majority of people.

Never in 18 years of using message boards have I heard them referred to as "some more" and "no more". Pretty sure you made that up. lol

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