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by echeese 1095 days ago
Elo isn't an acronym/initialism.
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It is better if you just imagine that we’re ranking things in order of similarity to ELO (electric light orchestra).
Twitter: -100; Mastodon: zero; Bluesky: 5,000

Yup, this could work

Now I kinda want to hear a heavy metal remake of Mr Blue Sky.
Weezer has you covered.
No need to be coy; it's named after Arpad Elo, the chess player who came up with this general ranking method.
at some point social media posts will put mistakes like this just to bait engagement
Cool story bro.
While we're on the subject, neither is TOR.
Tor is an acronym for "The Onion Router", it just isn't capitalised as such.

[0] https://support.torproject.org/about/why-is-it-called-tor/

[1] https://www.britannica.com/technology/Tor-encryption-network