https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/29191692
I don’t even know what to think about this one. I’m not angry, more confused than anything. There’s only one mod there so i asked them, and they said “It’s against policy. It’s the abbreviations policy.”
I see no such policy anywhere, so who knows what’s going on. Is it only the NYT that can’t be abbreviated? What about the US? Is LOL forbidden too? And if so, why are we forbidden from laughing there!
They didn’t even remove the comment.
The mod is user qrstuv. Maybe the only abbreviation allowed is when they say one? That’s a power trip!
no abbreviations? that is the single most idiotic rule ive ever seen. what a fucking idiot.
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What does it stand for? I assume it’s not signed distance field
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Correct.
I had no idea that was it. Honestly, it sounds like an early name for the Cybertruck.
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Oh, it predates flash by a good bit. The instance is hosted for the community of a Public Unix host that dates back to BBS days of the Internet. Lots of cool retrotech, FOSS stuff, and FOSS-themed web comics.
ikr wtf jk
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Oh no, saying “the US” is also a bannable abbreviation! Lol! What in the world
Lol
6 day ban! You must type “laughing out loud”
A pet peeve of mine is when people randomly throw acronyms around expecting everyone to just know what it means, but this is taking the piss.
Is it? I know what the NYT is because Im American. Im not sure if that acronym is universal.
I mean their reaction to acronyms are over the top, not specifically “NYT” itself. It’s certainly not worth banning anyone over.
What they could do is encourage people to define the acronym the first time they use ie, e.g. “The New York Times (NYT) reports that…”
And that’d be fine. Remove the comment and explain why and what to do in the future.
plenty of science communities have acronym bots, and i find that excellent: they post a reply comment to any with known acronyms with a table defining their meanings. it can be super helpful!
this is the right way to do things: trying to control the way people usually interact is just never going to work well
In a post about an article from the NYT, I think you should be able to figure it out.
Yeah, I’m okay with discouraging abbreviations. But a blanket ban is silly.
Comments on a post about a New York Times article regarding the United States should probably be fine to use NYT & US.
Comments talking about the best computer role playing game going on and on about PoE2 deserve a ban however.
Power over Ethernet 2 when??
I work in marketing and it’s not fun anymore please take me off this ride
What happens if you write GNU since that’s a recursive acronym?
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
After they finish expanding it
Stack overflow.
Arch btw
Banned for spamming
I wonder if using the word taxi, instead of taximeter cabriolet, will prompt a ban.
If I were a mod, I’d ban anyone who used “taximeter cabriolet” on sight. /s
You are banned, you should have used “I would” instead of “I’d”
They also dared to say “mod” and not “moderator”. That’s added moderator disrespect, and we cannot allow that!
I want this community now
Wait… Taxi Cab is short for something?
Depends how long the ride is.
The short version of Limousine ofc
Before we know it, people will be calling the popular public conveyance a ‘bus’, rather than the proper name of ‘Omnibus’.
Shock. Horror.
Am I the only one that finds this fucking hilarious?
Not at all!
There’s been another post about the same community (or was it same instance?) a week or two ago.
I remember the bans were because of NYT, USAID and probably others.
I don’t know if we had any explanation of what the fuck (sorry, meant to write ‘WTF’) is happening over there.
Yup, it’s not a new one: https://lemmy.cafe/post/13017274
Thanks, I was searching for keyword “abbreviations” and not “acronym” so couldn’t find the post.
Ah thank you. I didn’t even think to look, I was too much in a state of disbelief
They’ve locked every post so I guess they don’t really want any community whatsoever.
their instance’s own fucking domain name is not… “lemmy.superdimensionfortress.org”
@qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org this you?
You see, it’s different when they do it.
Honestly, SDF is becoming the home of the bad weirdos. There’s constant examples like this one coming from them, not to mention CSAM staying up for way too long without them handling it etc. They really need to get their shit together before the threadiverse has enough and just summarily defeds them.
PTB
You didn’t even break that rule, because an abbreviation is when you shortened a word to its first few letters, like ‘Inc.’ for ‘Incorporated’.
NYT is an initialism. NASA is an acronym. Neither are abbreviations.
Akshually
What a clown show.
“qrstuv” isn’t an abbreviation. It’s the alphabet dawg
Lmao so it is! Good catch
“Where did the acronym touch you?”
It touched me in my P P
Ok, you know the rules. Get in the box.
kinky
omg
Pierre Polievre doesn’t belong to you
