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> I love the entire concept of calling a top commenter "prominent". "Prominent" in the sense of "highly visible" or "widely known". I don't see the argument ag
by quesera 13y ago
> I love the entire concept of calling a top commenter "prominent".
"Prominent" in the sense of "highly visible" or "widely known". I don't see the argument against that label.
Maybe you're thinking of "preeminent"? That would be a higher bar.
- larrys 13y agoDefinition I come up with for prominent is "important and well-known". http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prominent http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prominent And that is what the definition and typical usage for me (and observed by others) has always been. (Perhaps for a non american speaker it is different).
- quesera 13y agoSorry, got carried away with my recommendation of "preeminent" as a replacement with a stronger connotation of importance. The two are colloquially interchangeable, I agree. Back to semantics: in Latin, prominere means "jutting out, standing out". I fall for the originalist definition sometimes, though certainly a thing's importance can be derived from its prominence. :)