Talk:plox

RFV discussion
Although this has four quotations, one isn't durably archived for our standards (I can't access it to verify it) and two of the others aren't for this spelling. I've had a short look and I can't find any additional durably archived uses in this sense ("Plox" is apparently the name of a sci fi character, and part of the scientific name for a plant). Almost all the uses are in what appear to be random blocks of gibberish in spam messages. Thryduulf (talk) 11:39, 27 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Well challenged. DCDuring TALK 12:46, 27 June 2010 (UTC)


 * There are plenty of uses here.  — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ (U · T · C) ~ 13:49, 17 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Actually there aren't - there are lots of raw hits, but not many uses. There are a few apparent uses that are not durably archived and so can't count towards verification (usenet is durably archived, google groups aren't unfortunately). Of the durably archived uses, there are two that I'm not certain what sense they're using the word in, , and so aren't very good for demonstrating usage. There is one where it is the only word in the message and so impossible to tell whether it has the meaning attributed to it in our entry or not. A couple of messages where it appears be being used as something like a metasyntactic variable or other placeholder, several messages that are not in English, and oodles of messages where it's used in what appears to be a string of gibberish in spam messages (typically in the alt.sex hierarchy). All the other instances, down to page 23 of hits, are actually for Plox in three senses - the name of a character from Star Trek, the handle of a contributor to the thread in question, and the name of a plant. The latter of these might meet the CFI but I've not looked to see. If you're seeing something I'm not then go ahead and cite the entry, but I don't think you'll find the requisite three durably archived uses based on my experience. Thryduulf (talk) 21:52, 17 July 2010 (UTC)


 * IMO, it is perfectly transparent that SHOW OF HANDS /r/ PLOX! = "[A] show of hands, /r/, please!" (in which "/r/" refers to 4chan's requests forum) and that Moar Bag Space Plox Kthnx = "More bag space, please." (undefined: is frequently misspelt on purpose; undefined: refers to World of Warcraft inventory slots of some kind; and  (usually : ), whilst literally a txtspk-style contraction of "OK, thanks, bye", means virtually nothing in that context). More CFI-satisfying uses can be found from these four hits . From my research, I conclude that the uses of undefined: and undefined: as the names of a plant and of the Star Trek character are misspellings of  (Phlox) and  (Phlox (Star Trek)).  — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ (U · T · C) ~ 16:40, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

RFV failed, entry moved redirectlessly to Citations:plox. —Ruakh TALK 03:38, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Typical use
Parodies of the alleged behaviour of Brazilians, especially Brazilian gamers, online: GIB MONI PLOX HUEHUEHUE and the like. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 21:28, 22 September 2021 (UTC)