Deals.Woot

I will offer a slight change to one of yours: The Crabacon Nebula

Wooterville

The Woot Coliseum: Thumbs up or thumbs down on deals

Taking @barnabee's idea another step: Flavian

Wooterama? Wonderful World of Woot ( or WWW 3W or W^3)?

just call it "Wooters" but put nipples in the "o"s and make wootbot wear some way-too-short orange shorts.

@snapster: I'd think that Crabs ought not to be used. They were an outside insurrection, and while a good time was had by all, I would think that it would be polite not to use it.

Our good friend and boon companion, @crabnebula, hasn't been around much in the past few weeks, it's true, but I'd still pick something else, if it were up to me.

Names are important, it's true.

@jamesbondqbranch: but adopting outside insurrection is what makes crabs interesting to me. meet subversion with subversion.

@pinchecat: ah yes, that will be a pain. I hereby propose that MC2 is just fine and in fact, I propose that instead of saying "MCsquared" we will say 'MCtwo" - this parallels usage of Amazon's EC2 which deals-woot is running on and is not so silly to say as MCsquared.

@snapster: metawoot.com or metadeals.woot.com

What Woot you like to do?

@snapster: I would like to strongly second metawoot.com (or meta.woot.com, whichever suits you) which carries a certain intellectual cachet that appeals to the crustacean in me.

The Wootalyzer

The Brain

iGGz

How about a disaster, since the new deals.woot isn't nearly as good as the old one?

deal.woot social platform (or herein referred to collectively as "The Platform" from now on) - read a few fine prints or even your own 'terms & conditions' to find quick nicknames for long terms. or is "Platform" is used for main woot site?

I really think to gain local buy in you definitely need a name that resonates with a local populace. That means less meta and more wootie. Sorry, but ultimately when you talk local users for deals I think you are reaching for two groups: the group who are already internet savvy (or moderately so) and are willing to moderate/participate, and those who are internet beginners (untapped potential) who are looking to connect and will eat up local deals. It has to have a local flair for each city/area or it will never actually gain the following you are looking for. Just my opinion.

@drchops: You've probably heard "Wooterville" because many of us tended to use that when referring to Woot and to Woot Forums (differentiating them from the Open Frontier of Deals). I originally started using the term myself because it just seemed fitting, somehow.

There are people on the Forums that made brief appearances here, never to return, and others who are here, and rarely (or never) visit there. In the earlier times, the "Community" was called "Wooters" and it made more sense when we called the forum Wooterville. I still think of it that way, myself.

wocal, a combination of vocal and local:
w is somewhat like v and l together
some pronounce syllables v and l like w -- more memorable, as it raises a red flag (did you mean something else and accidentally mispronounce it?)

It also has some homonyms that may come into play internally.