# Plonked?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 13, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plonked/725069 "2015-07-13T18:08:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plonked/725069/1 "2015-07-13T18:08:30Z")
Did I miss something, does plonk, to plonk, plonked not mean that you are being autodumped into someones spam bucket? Or otherwise ignored? I just got spam with the title plonked … 😕 ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plonked/725069/2 "2015-07-13T18:17:59Z")
it’s an old Usenet term which means more or less what you’re thinking. you could add posters to your “kill” file which means you’d never see anything they posted. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plonked/725069/3 "2015-07-13T18:36:15Z")
Was this message in response to a message you had sent, or were you a random recipient? It may refer to one of the definitions listed for internet slang? \*plonk verb uk /plɒŋk/ us /plɑːŋk/ plonk verb (PUT DOWN) › [I or T, usually + adv/prep] mainly UK (US usually plunk) to put something down heavily and without taking care: Just plonk the shopping (down) on the table, and come and have a cup of tea. Come in and plonk yourselves (down) (= sit down) anywhere you like.\* > **[plonk](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/plonk?q=Plonked)** > > 1. to put something down heavily and without taking care: 2. to play a musical… From a slang dictionary - \*What does PLONK stand for? Your abbreviation search returned 6 meanings Meaning - PLONK Person Leaving Our Newsgroup (kill filtered) Search the Web PLONK Please Leave Our Newsgroup Kid (slang) Search the Web PLONK Person with Little Or No Knowledge Search the Web PLONK Pewien Lamer Opuscil Nasza Kompanie (Polish) Search the Web PLONK Put Lamer On Kill Filter (USENET) Search the Web PLONK Pewnie Lepiej Olac Niz Komentowac (Polish)\* > **[PLONK - Definition by AcronymFinder](https://www.acronymfinder.com/PLONK.html)** > > 6 definitions of PLONK. Meaning of PLONK. What does PLONK stand for? PLONK abbreviation. Define PLONK at AcronymFinder.com ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plonked/725069/4 "2015-07-13T19:18:27Z")
Wow. Haven’t heard that in ages! If it’s spam, I wonder if they’re trying to evoke a return email from people so they know the address is good? ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plonked/725069/5 "2015-07-13T23:24:03Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Was this message in response to a message you had sent, or were you a random recipient? It may refer to one of the definitions listed for internet slang? > > PLONK Please Leave Our Newsgroup Kid (slang) > Search the Web I’d always had this one down as Please Log Off Now Kook and used as a (slightly) more polite way of saying “Please shut up and go away”. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plonked/725069/6 "2015-07-13T23:36:29Z")
Here’s the definitions in the canonical dictionaries: [ > [@Jargon File](#): > > plonk: excl.,vt. > > ``` > [Usenet: possibly influenced by British slang ‘plonk’ for cheap booze, or ‘plonker’ for someone behaving stupidly (latter is lit. equivalent to Yiddish schmuck)] The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. While it originated in the newsgroup talk.bizarre, this term (usually written “*plonk*”) is now (1994) widespread on Usenet as a form of public ridicule. > > ``` ]([plonk](http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plonk.html)) [ > [@FOLDOC](#): > > plonk > > (networking, abuse) (Usually written “_plonk_”) The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. > > In the first of a series of humourous books by Stephen Potter, “One-Upmanship” (published in 1952) a “plonk” - a pompous bit of misinformation said in a “plonking” tone - was a key feature of his advice on how to “creatively intimidate” someone by making them feel inferior and thereby gain the status of being “one-up” on them. Since these efforts are usually transparently pathetic, the term became widely applied to any idiotic statement. > > The term appeared on-line in the Usenet newsgroup news:talk.bizarre and, by 1994, was widespread on Usenet and mailing lists as a form of public ridicule. > > The term may have been influenced by British slang “plonker” for someone behaving stupidly. The expansion “Person with Little Or No Knowledge” may be a backronym. ]([http://foldoc.org/plonk](http://foldoc.org/plonk)) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plonked/725069/7 "2015-07-14T09:50:51Z")
Random spam, near as I could tell. I remember the term from the days I got the Rialto as individual emails from my dial up ISP … [rec.org.SCA] Just very odd, but it was nicely different from the various politicos, politico’s widows and random military guys needing help moving money around … ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plonked/725069/8 "2015-07-14T14:05:34Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Random spam, near as I could tell. I remember the term from the days I got the Rialto as individual emails from my dial up ISP … [rec.org.SCA] > > Just very odd, but it was nicely different from the various politicos, politico’s widows and random military guys needing help moving money around … Report it as spam. Don’t open it. Delete it. Basic internet safety measures. Maybe the Chinese/Nigerian sender wasn’t aware that it was an olde term? Maybe they hoped to catch a newbie? As long as you didn’t end up with a virus, life is good. 😃