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Ye Power Trippin' [email protected] • 4 days ago

This a new one: Banned for abbreviating New York Times to NYT in a comment.

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This a new one: Banned for abbreviating New York Times to NYT in a comment.

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Ye Power Trippin' [email protected] • 4 days ago

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!

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  Community only has one mod and their account is not marked as a bot. If they are using scripts as a bot they’re violating rules and etiquette about automated accounts needing to be marked as bots.

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