I don't know what whahay means but it sounds ok for some reason.

no matter what you think of saltw gamingw is pretty much the worst thing we could go back to because it's a) implying that we're a gamer community and b) horribly unoriginal (google gaming world and look at how many sites come up).  like try to think about the name GAMING WORLD through the eyes of someone who has never heard of it and think about how 13-years-old it sounds.

i guess 'gamingw' specifically doesn't bother me as much as saltw because at least it has a history to it. saltw may sound less like a site created by a 13 year old, but it's still completely stupid. the original saltworld joke by gz was funny for about 5 seconds. to stretch that to this extent is nuts. also it was an inside joke and makes absolutely no sense out of context.

idk, i just think that saltw sounds really fucking dumb. like the main argument against 'gamingw' was that people said they were embarrassed to say they were a part of a site with the world 'gaming' in its name (which i totally understand), but then the solution was to pick a name just as awkward? like would anyone ever say "hey man check out this cool site it's called salt world"? because then you're forced to explain yourself "no you see saltw was an old in-joke, the name is ironic" "uh, okay".

uh no i'd probably just be like "it's called salt world it's a site with cool people" and i probably wouldn't expect them to really ask about the name because websites have weird fuckin names.  like, i've never questions why giant bomb is called that, or something awful.  HISTORY is a dumb reason to encourage a name, because our history is as an rpgmaker site full of teens.  look i'm not the #1 fan of the name saltw but arguing in favor of gamingw on the grounds of not liking saltw is way dumber than the name saltw is.

yeah but giant bomb and something awful are decent names for sites. SA even moreso because it actually makes sense with what the site is about.

and i'm not really arguing in favor of the old gw name. i was just making a point that i think saltw is every bit as bad as the old name was.

there were some legitimately good alternative suggestions made during the initial name change. the only reason saltw won was because it was the only "joke option" out of the bunch, and so of course that's what people will vote for because everyone is a comedian. also the name change happened at arguably the community's lowest point and i think some people probably even picked it out of spite specifically because it was such a bad name.

like if you wanted to go the serious route and make a genuine attempt at reviving the site then i think ed's "glitchworks" name was probably the best one. it kept the old gw acronym (everyone always referred to gw as gw and never gamingw), made some thematic sense, and sounded serviceable at worst and good at best. of course i doubt that's an option anymore since glitchworks is now some project of his independent of this site.

i remember liking dday's (of all people) suggestion of "indiegestion" but then a lot of other people hated having the world 'indie' in there at all so idk.