{"id":123374,"date":"2021-04-24T19:40:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T00:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=123374"},"modified":"2021-04-25T21:48:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T02:48:17","slug":"muff-wiggler-now-mod-wiggler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2021\/04\/24\/muff-wiggler-now-mod-wiggler\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Muff Wiggler’ Now ‘Mod Wiggler’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Synth forum Muff Wiggler<\/strong> has officially changed its name to ‘Mod Wiggler<\/strong>‘, in response to user feedback.<\/p>\n

The name has been controversial among site users for more than a decade, with about two-thirds of the visitors in a 2008 survey either ambivalent about the name or characterizing the name as: unacceptable; mildly offensive; or stupid, but harmless. Only about one-third of the visitors were strongly in favor of it.<\/p>\n

While the site’s late founder Mike McGrath<\/strong> said he named it after a pair of popular Electro-Harmonix<\/strong> effects pedals, the ‘Big Muff’ and the ‘Wiggler’, the name was seen by many as a single entendre – a phrase with a bawdy meaning, that’s not really cleaver enough to have the dual meanings of a double entendre. <\/span><\/p>\n

In recent years, interest in renaming the site has only grown, because users had the same issues as ‘Gearslutz’ users: the name was seen as unprofessional; it was broadly considered sexist; and the name led to the site being blocked or avoided in schools and workplaces.<\/p>\n

Site organizers released this statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Today marks the 2 year anniversary of Mike’s passing, so I thought it would be a good time to detail the often hinted upcoming changes to the site that will be going live over the next week:<\/p>\n

Effective today, we are now Mod Wiggler.<\/p>\n

ModWiggler.com is now active, although your old bookmarks will continue to work until the old DNS registration expires, on November 21, 2022.<\/p>\n

Images and site configuration will be updated over the next couple days to match the new name. If by Monday I’ve missed anything, please shoot me a message.<\/p>\n

We will not be rewriting history. We will not be changing old post contents. We are not banning or scrubbing words.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to go into details about why the name was changed. That and settling on a new name was hard enough. It’s done and not open for debate.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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