Citations:triforcing

Noun: "(Internet) the practice of posting three Unicode triangles (▲) arranged in a triforce configuration, generally to establish one is not a newbie on an online community"

 * 2011 — David Thorne, The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin (2011), ISBN 9781101513774, unnumbered page:
 * All I could work out is that I am apparently a "newfag" and cannot "triforce" but am unsure as to why I would need to triforce in the first place. I asked some of the people on there for their advice regarding triforcing, but the only answer I seemed to get was "nigger."
 * 2011 — Michael S. Bernstein, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Drew Harry, Paul André, Katrina Panovich, & Greg Vargas, "4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community", Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ISBN 978-1-57735-505-2, pages 50-57:
 * One example status signal in /b/ is the classic barrier for newcomers called "triforcing." Triforcing means leaving a post using Unicode to mimic the three-triangle icon of popular video game The Legend of Zelda:
 * In signaling theory terms, we can think of triforcing as an index: a signal whose presentation is only possible by someone with particular skill or knowledge (Smith and Harper 1995).
 * In signaling theory terms, we can think of triforcing as an index: a signal whose presentation is only possible by someone with particular skill or knowledge (Smith and Harper 1995).