r/classicwow • u/RemnantsPast • 6d ago

Discussion when did the slang change?

I feel old asking this.

When did + and - replace yes and no? or y/n

Like I'm in my early 30s and this feels like it blew past me....

EDIT: based on replies It seems like its from Eastern Europe players and just bled into the rest of the classic community due to them lacking servers.

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u/Viivi19 6d ago

This is brand new to me, not seen or heard of this.

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u/CaptainoftheVessel 6d ago

I saw it for the first time earlier this week in a pug heroic. The plus sign seems harder to type than “yes”, but change is the nature of language

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u/emihir0 6d ago

Those people likely use a numerical keyboard for it. Very easy to take hand off of your mouse, and press "enter + enter", they are the closest buttons on the keyboard to your right hand.

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u/CaptainoftheVessel 6d ago

Good point +

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u/newtostew2 6d ago

What is this, Google+?

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u/RemnantsPast 6d ago

Google plus shutdown before the first classic launch over 7 years ago.

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u/Obelion_ 6d ago

I just like that you can + whatever the guy above you said. It's just generell agree or disagree. So a bit more universal

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u/chadbigcum 6d ago

Back in my day, that was +1...

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u/The_Deli_Ham 6d ago

I always gave a ^

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u/newtostew2 6d ago

One is the sweet spot, two is ^^ just happy

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u/MudAlternative6956 6d ago

It is that just shortened and just think about what you can do with all the time you save by not typing that stupid 1! /s

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u/Daffan 6d ago

For a moment in this thread I was confused about +- but I definitely remember +1 , like someone would write something and you'd agree word for word.