What does "ttt' stand for?
 

What does "ttt' stand for?

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I asked the same question a few weeks ago. It seems to me anybody who takes the time to post a reply would want to write a message that is understood by everybody who reads it, but apparently some people assume we all have the same Little Orphan Annie Decoder Ring.

I agree w/happytrails. What does "to the top" mean? Thanks.

Only 50 posts show up on the first page of this forum. When a post has dropped down past 50th (and doesn't show up on the first page) someone will often move it back up by posting a reply to the post.

If that poster who is trying to move it back it to the top of the list of posts has something new to add or say, they will type in such a response.

When they just want to move it back to the top, they will type ttt to do so quickly.

Sometimes the person posting a reply is the OP.

OP means Opening Poster.

Hope that helps.

I am sorry!
For those without the decoder ring, it means that when no one posts a reply on a particular thread, it drops to the bottom of the list as other threads are "topped"/replied to.
By typing ttt or to the top or topping or whatever word appeals to you, it brings your post up to the top of the page again..as my reply to this will.
Hope this helps. If it does not, turn in your decoder ring at once.

ttt means that someone read your question and wanted it to reappear at the TOP of the column of questions, so thant people who may be able to answer your question see it as soon as they log on and don't have to search thru 200 questions...if u don't post every day your post is usually in no mands land. If some one replies ttt, it is only helping you out.

Instead of critizing TTT please understand that often when you start a thread if if doesn't get a lot of answers your thread drops down the line. First it is #1, suddenly it is #32. Then a bit later it is #68 and so forth.

So a kind Fodorite sees your thread and posts "TTT". This makes your thread go to the top of the threads again so that hopefully someone that knows the answer to your question will respond, hopefully more than one person.

It is not meant to be a "secret code". It is done out of kindness.

And sometimes posters "top" their own thread with hopes that once their thread is back on the top of the threads someone with the knowledge they are seeking will see it and respond.

Well, LOL, guess we all were trying to be helpfull! So wrep now (at least at this moment)your thread is at the top of the list. Fodorites are always willing to help others.

Well, now that someone has brought up the Secret Decoder Ring, I think this should be brought up at the next Secret Fodorite Meeting.

There will sometimes also be that bored poster who will go through Fodors Archives for the oldest thread and they top it just for the "fun" of it.

Shhh!!!
SCARLETT!!!
You aren't supposed to talk about the secret meetings.

Now, you're going to get them started on the clique thing again.

Insert wagging finger emoticon (if anyone knows how to do one)

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LOL starrsville, I won't say another word!
And I'm not telling where I got that Secret Emoticon either :D

That's good to know - and so nice. thank you!

Secret emoticon, hah!

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Betsy, YOU went to that secret Fodor's meeting and received your very own decorder ring didn't you!!

It's a Secret Decoder Fodor <i>PIN</i> that Ms. Bets uses.

LOL, Love and Kal. If you really <i>must</i> know, my sacred pin has a secret decoder chip in it. And yes, of course I attended the secret meeting.

:-) :-) :-)

&lt;Playing hookey from packing :D&gt;

Betsy,
could this be that chip that also helps find me if I get lost? LOL ((L)) Kal
Mornin Love!
Now back to stick my head in a box ~

Forget the decoder ring, where do I get me one of those GPS chips? I want to give it to my soon-to-be 19 year for his birthday. Are they hard to implant and do they come with directions and do I need to administer any anesthesia? Thanks.

Kally, how the heck do you get lost in a hotel room that doesn't have <i>closets</i>?

Seetheworld, I think I saw an implant-it-yourself book at Amazon.
:-)

And all this time I thought it meant Try Taking Turns. Huh.

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Not to muddy the waters, but if you had really used all the buttons on your decoder ring, you would have discovered 43 definitions of TTT (actually thanks to www.acronymfinder.com):

TTT Securite (logging abbreviation)
TTT Tactics Team Trainer
TTT TAP Testing Toolkit (Comfone; mobile networks, GSM)
TTT Tap to Tap (metallurgy)
TTT Target Transmission Time
TTT Teacher Talking Time
TTT Team Time Trial
TTT Tekken Tag Tournament (Namco video game)
TTT Teleport to Target (gaming)
TTT Tele-Teaching and Training
TTT Terrible Terry Tate (Reebok character)
TTT Thai Telephone and Telecommunications
TTT That's The Ticket
TTT That's the Truth
TTT The Two Towers (second Lord of the Rings book/movie)
TTT Things Take Time
TTT Things That Think consortium (MIT)
TTT Third Tier Toilet (colleges rating)
TTT Thought That Too
TTT Tic Tac Toe
TTT Tilt Table Test
TTT Time to Talk
TTT Time to Target
TTT Time to Train
TTT Time Triggered Technology
TTT Time, Talent and Treasures
TTT Ting Tar Tid
TTT To the Top (aka bounce, BBSs)
TTT Tokyo Times Tower (Japan)
TTT Total Time on Test
TTT Total Time on Test (reliability)
TTT Touch Tone Terrorists
TTT Train The Trainer
TTT Training Task Table
TTT Trappentreuthtunnel (Munich, Germany tunnel)
TTT Triangle Tennis Trust (Chennai, India)
TTT Tried &amp; True Trains (model railroading)
TTT Trinidad and Tobago Television
TTT Trunk-to-Trunk Transfer
TTT Truth Takes Time
TTT Tummy Touching Table
TTT Tut-Tera Teksa?o (Esperanto: WWW)
TTT Two-Tangent Theorem (geometry)

Whatever happened to the good ol' standby &quot;bump&quot;?

Gee, thanks for the tip Betsy ;)

Help!!!! Mrlou threw me into a chlorine filled pool and my secret decoder ring is all foggy now. I have no way of finding out where the next Ultra Secret Underground Fodorites for Random Acts of Kindness Meeting will be taking place. Anyone??? Bueller???

Sorry everyone, I thought I was on the secret fodors clique private forum, not the main page! Never intended to let that info out to the general fodorite public. Oooops! My bad! Next meeting drinks are on me!

ttt

Unfortunately, gyppielou, until your Secret Decoder Ring unfogs you will not be able to receive announcements regarding the next secret meeting.

gyppie, I will tell you but it will have to be in code.
It's in the youknowhat now. hugs.

Teriffic Ta Tas!!!!!!!!!!!TTT