This website's acronym needs to be changed

[Franky4Fingers]

An acronym shouldn't have anymore than 3 letters. Sometimes.....SOMETIMES it can have 4 if its for good reason. Kind of like the same rules as sometimes the letter "Y" is considered a vowel, or how when grouping numbers anything over 3 numbers needs a comma....well, sometimes if its only going to be 4 numbers, a comma isn't needed.

The only time a an acronym can have more than 3 letters is when it actually makes its own word and the word therefore, can literally speak for itself. Like "Nascar" Its easy to spell and remmeber.


I sometimes joke on here and say "the PAFOAFAOFAFOAFAAAAOAOOA Forum" becuase it just looks like someone banged on the keyboard. I have also seen some people call it the "POOFA" forum. Simply because there are too many and unnecessary letters.


Look at the "NRA", National Rifle Association. Its not the National American Rifle Owners Association. Which would make it the "NAROA" That would be ridiculous. Or for another isntance, "ATF" is good, "BATFE" is not. They want to look cooler with more letters, but its not.


Pennsylvania is one word, therefore one letter can represent it, the letter "P", that gets rid of the "A", Firearms is an important word so keep that. There is the "F" Now we move onto owners, irrelevant, drop it. And that brings us to Association, which is the "A".This place should be called the PFA Forum........or something that follows a little more suit than POAFAFAOFOFAFOAP, everytime I type it I actually have to stop and think for a second and look it over to make sure its right because its such a jumble.

[electronics]

PAFOA is an initialism or alphabetism, which mean the same thing. It is not an acronym, nor is there any random limit to how long an acronym can be that I've ever stumbled across. Acronyms are an initialism which creates a word, such as SONAR or RADAR. All of these are abbreviations.

[Mr_Gixxer]

This place should be called the PFA Forum........

Protection From Abuse<--?

[PocketProtector]

I think the OP is spot on. "Branding" is about creating an instant association of a brief term to your organization. PAFOA IMHO doesn't quite get it done.

[Mr_Gixxer]

Or we could change it to what the anti's like to call "firearms"...

PWA

Ooooooo those evil weapons.....

PWA HA HA HA HA

[tlgpa]

An acronym shouldn't have anymore than 3 letters.

Nothing says an acronym needs to be any length.
NASA
UNESCO -United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
OPEC - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
LORAN - long-range navigation
Interpol: International Criminal Police Organization
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group
SFMOMA: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
AAODL – Atmospheric Aerosols and Optics Data Library
AASPEM – advanced air-to-air system performance evaluation model
AHPCRC – Army High Performance Computing Research Center
NORAD - North American Aerospace Defense Command
AAFES - Army & Air Force Exchange Services
ACGIH - American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists
NODMAR - Notice of Discharge & Medicare Appeal Rights

This place should be called the PFA Forum........or something that follows a little more suit than POAFAFAOFOFAFOAP, everytime I type it I actually have to stop and think for a second and look it over to make sure its right because its such a jumble.

PA - FOA
All you have to remember is FOA (Firearm Owners Association). The PA is kinda a no brainer.

Besides PFA is already taken.
PFA Protection From Abuse
www.pfa.com Professional Financial Associates
www.pfa.org Polyurethane Foam Association
Pedorthic Footwear Association
PFA Pacific Film Archive
PFA Professional Footballers Association
PFA Paraformaldehyde
PFA Predictive Failure Analysis
PFA Perfluoroalkoxy
PFA Pulverised Fuel Ash (cement additive)
PFA Parent-Faculty Association
PFA Popular Flying Association
PFA People for Animals (animal protection)
PFA Platelet Function Analyzer (aka Platelet Function Assay)
PFA Prevention of Food Adulteration Act (India)
PFA Public Finance Authority
PFA Polyurethane Foam Association
PFA Policía Federal Argentina
PFA Printer Font ASCII
PFA Packet Flow Acceleration (Peribit)
PFA Psychological First Aid
PFA Probability of False Alarm
PFA Public Financing Authority
PFA Public Facilities Authority
PFA Priority Funding Area
PFA Please Find Attached (email attachments)
PFA Platelet Function Assay (aka Platelet Function Analyzer)
PFA Public Fishing Area
PFA Parameter Field Address
PFA Prime Factor Algorithm
PFA Production Flow Analysis (computer integrated manufacturing)
PFA Physical Failure Analysis
PFA Pierre Fauchard Academy (dental organization)
PFA Pennsylvania Forestry Association
PFA Philadelphia Funk Authority (Lehigh Valley, PA band)
PFA Press Foundation of Asia
PFA Personal Fitness Assessment
PFA Profunda Femoris Artery
PFA Polish Falcons of America
PFA Process Flow Analysis
PFA Post Flight Analysis
PFA Polar Format Algorithm
PFA Professional Financial Advisor
PFA Pedestrian Friendly Alameda (Alameda, CA)
PFA Planet's Funniest Animals (TV show)
PFA Person from Abroad
PFA Paid For Action (advertising)
PFA Pistillate Flower Abscission (walnut genotypes)
PFA Physical Fitness Assesment
PFA Palm Fatty Acid
PFA Personal Financial Analyst
PFA Point of Force Application
PFA Participating Field Activity
PFA Phase Failure Relay
PFA Provider Financial Assurance Audit (UK)
PFA Private Facility Access (Hekimian)
PFA Pet Flat Animals
PFA Planned Future Action
PFA Plain Film Abdomen
PFA Planned Facility Account
PFA Per-Flow Accounting
PFA Premium Fund Account (insurance)
PFA Poly Film Adhesive
PFA Pulled from Air
PFA Public First Aid
PFA Please Find Attachment (email abbreviation)
PFA Primary Feed Antenna
PFA Pedorthic Footwear Assosciation (est. 1958; Washington, DC)

[LorDiego01]

PAFOA.

PA-FOA

FOA= Firearms Owners Association

PA= Pennsylvania

It works for me.

[Andrew17019]

With only 690 some posts, you're obviously having a hard time remember this site's address.

Seriously, though...if I tell people about this site I usually have to say "PAFOA" quite a few times before it sinks in.

[Franky4Fingers]

So many people here are so quick to argue something, they'd tell you your rear end was punched in if you said it was bored out.


The point of my post is that it should be short and sweet, nothing should ever be more complex than it has to be. It also should be catchy and stick in your mind, Like NASCAR. PAFOA does not.

[Franky4Fingers]

With only 690 some posts, you're obviously having a hard time remember thing site's address.

Seriously, though...if I tell people about this site I usually have to say "PAFOA" quite a few times before it sinks in.

Um......favorites list.