# Negative Web Site Slang

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-web-site-slang/9824>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 8, 1999, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-web-site-slang/9824 "1999-10-08T18:43:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![falcon2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dbc845/32.png) [@falcon2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/falcon2)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 1999, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-web-site-slang/9824/1 "1999-10-09T05:06:00Z")

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Anyone out there heard of any negative conatative web terms for bad sites?  
The only one I’ve heard of is:  
Dancing Bologna- pointless and gratuitous use of anoying animated gif.

Anyone heard of, or want to coin any others? How about one for blatant style plagery, or pages take decades to full load, yet have no useful content at all.

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**Author:** ![curious\_george](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b487fb/32.png) [@curious\_george](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curious_george)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-web-site-slang/9824/2 "1999-10-08T18:43:00Z")

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Don’t know of any for pages, but there is www = world wide wait, and the web is sometimes referred to as Information Overload in general.

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**Author:** ![Timothy\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Timothy\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timothy_Campbell)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 1999, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-web-site-slang/9824/3 "1999-10-23T00:05:00Z")

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A page that takes forever to load and contains nothing of any particular interest could be called “Bandwitless”.

Sorry, that’s the best I could do. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 1999, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-web-site-slang/9824/4 "1999-10-23T00:56:00Z")

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Circuit Breaker-- Any web page that requires ten seperate plug-ins.  
– Sylence

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And now, for my next trick, I will talk in spooky half-references.

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**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 1999, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-web-site-slang/9824/5 "1999-10-23T05:25:00Z")

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I’ll call a site so bloated with Java it causes my whole computer to creak to a stand-still Over-caffeinated, or Java the Hut, depending on my mood…

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Yer pal,  
Satan

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**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 1999, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-web-site-slang/9824/6 "1999-10-24T06:01:00Z")

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Waste of Bandwidth–self-explainatory  
Playing Whack-a-mole–killing all the umpteen-billion popups on porn and warez sites (uh, not that I’d know, or anything).

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“Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.”

- Bertrand Russell