Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture

Re:Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture by bayareaguy on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @05:38PM (#129208)

I get incensed when I see incenting used this way.

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Re:Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture by zach on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @08:42PM (#129375)

It's a perfectly normal word, if you talk like this:

"Once you incent knowledge workers to leverage their core competencies, you empower them to impact the bottom line."

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Re:Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture by aston on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @06:14PM (#129262)

It's not really a word, but it basically is. Just like irregardless.

Language moves on, no matter how much it annoys us.

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Re:Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture by mechanical_fish on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @11:18PM (#129460)

Given that the more established alternative is incentivize, which is at least 50% more awful, I welcome this newly abbreviated word.

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Re:Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture by vixen99 on Wednesday March 05, 2008 @06:06AM (#129622)

You mean it could be as much as 60% more awful?

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Re:Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture by kul on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @05:44PM (#129219)

incenting is a word? i always thought it was incentivizing. in any case, both are ugly words.

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Re:Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture by jamesbritt on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @10:53PM (#129445)

I guess "motivating" would be too obvious.

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Re:Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture by ivankirigin on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @08:56PM (#129384)

Maybe it's a pun. Pissing users off with their profile pic to make them want to change it.

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