I have often be puzzled by

This forums title; puzzles, I get. But Posers?

Urban Dictionary;
1. posers

A poser is someone who tries to fit into a profile they aren't. People who try to give off the impression that they are one thing when they are really another.
Also, a poser can be one who says they can do something that they can't.
Or more commonly, a poser is someone who, when doing something successfully, takes more than enough credit for it.

Wiki;

Poser is a 3D CGI rendering and animation software program optimized for models that depict the human figure in three-dimensional form, mostly used to pose and animate the figures in a similar way as a mannequin. The program has become very popular due to its ease of use, which allows beginners to produce basic animations and digital images, and the extensive availability of third-party digital models.

Dose the title refer to one of these meanings?

😕

Just wondered.
I don't visit this forum much because chess is enough brain work for me.
I expect it's something else entirely?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poser

(UK) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.

Originally posted by Palynka
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poser

(UK) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.

Oh thanks Playnka. We do have a varried language indeed, I've never heard that in conversation or read it in a book but I'm not surprised that you'd know it where I didn't.

Originally posted by yo its me
Oh thanks Playnka. We do have a varried language indeed, I've never heard that in conversation or read it in a book but I'm not surprised that you'd know it where I didn't.

Why are you not surprised? When I started posting here I was as puzzled as you about it, but Google came to the rescue. 🙂

Originally posted by Palynka
Why are you not surprised? When I started posting here I was as puzzled as you about it, but Google came to the rescue. 🙂

It's always made sense to me: "to pose a question" is to ask a question, so all those threads that are like:

"Say you have a bucket with a hole in it and ....blah blah blah ... physics ... math ..."

I would consider that a "poser". Take sonhouse's thread on "fan spinning backwards" for instance.

it "poses" a challenge?
poser often appears to me as a "challenge" "can u do this" "poser"
i dont rilly no

The poser of the meaning of poser never puzzles me.

Old US slang from the 1950's:

Pull a boner = make a bad mistake

But I don't think anyone would dare say it now. 🙄

Urban Dictionary is not where you should be getting your definitions.

I recommend onelook

http://www.onelook.com/?w=poser&ls=a