[HELP] LEGO Abbreviation for Modified Model

[pcfw]

Found this List of LEGO Abbreviations useful when I need to understand some unknown abbreviation. Now at least I know what is MOC

MOC = My Own Creation

However, sometimes I end up with a modification of an existing. For example, this existing Lego Goalkeeper model in which a striker/ball kicker try to get a ball past into the goal.

The motion sensor makes the goal keeper moves faster when an object is nearer the goalkeeper so easier to block the ball as it should be.

As per Lego building instructions, the motion sensor is pointing in a direction perpendicular to the gaze of the goalkeeper which is illogical.

I modified that existing model to have

1. the motion sensor pointing in the same direction as the gaze of the goalkeeper

2. because the sensor only sense an object at a distance 15cm or less from the sensor

as described in Motion sensor application in modified goalkeeper robotic game (screenshot + video)

but I need to label (categorize) it for easy website navigation.

I would like to call it

MEM (Modified Existing Model)

instead of MOC because it is not exactly My Own Creation, although "almost".

However, for easy identification it needs to be widely use and easily recognized.

However, would anyone follow? If not it would not achieve above.

[Conchas]

There is already an abbreviation commonly used fir this - MOD

[technic70s]

I have always used Mod for this type of thing

[pcfw]

Thanks. I assume the M and O and D don't stand for anything but MOD is just extracted from MODified?

Well if the is already an existing abbre for that and it is already widely used then I don't need to do anything and should be happy just that I will lose some "bragging rights"

But if MOD just came from MODified then perhaps my personal preference is for the alphabets to individually represents something plus while there is noting related to EXISTING in MOD but there is an EXISTING in MEM (perhaps my "pride" can still be salvaged.

M and O and D don't stand for anything = M and O and D don't stand for anything INDIVIDUALLY

[dr_spock]

MOD is the term in standard wide use. You'll be hard pressed to get that modified. If you have acronym brain, then you can imagine in your mind MOD = My Own Deviation.

[Boxerlego]

I always thought MOD = My Own Design. Now that is understood, Ask yourself this question, When does something stop begin a MOD and starts being a MOC.

[Paul B Technic]

MOD is the well known and widely used term for this :)

[1974]

I always thought MOD = My Own Design. Now that is understood, Ask yourself this question, When does something stop begin a MOD and starts being a MOC.

Very easy. If you start modding a creation that is not your own original idea it will allways be a MOD, never a MOC - even if you replace every single brick

[Jim]

MOD is the term in standard wide use. You'll be hard pressed to get that modified.

Yup....MOD it is

[Boxerlego]

Very easy. If you start modding a creation that is not your own original idea it will allways be a MOD, never a MOC - even if you replace every single brick

For the most part I primarily use the mod term mostly because an Axle is modified or something along those lines. MOC and MOD were interchangeable for me so I called everything a MOC. But what if the original idea started out as a MOC and some where down the road you decided to start adding bricks from other creations. Take for example the 8446 MOC I made which originally started out as the beginning of the MOC Version 4 Monster truck because the chassis frame ending up begin the exact same dimension as the one on the 8446. Overall the entire creation could be consider a mash up of 9398 style of chassis with the 8446 style of body.