I waited so long to come forward and tell my story because I didn’t think anyone would believe me. But now I want people to know what happened to me, because if knowing what happened to me could prevent it happening to them, then I want them to know.
Says who? If you contract word aren’t you also abbreviating them? This goes to show that policies like this (should this exist in the first place, of course) makes absolutely no sense at all
English grammar. You can abbreviate a wooden log with a chainsaw, but you can’t abbreviate a word grammatically by cutting off the beginning of it.
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y ad! (That’s my bad, but I abbreviated it!)
Abbreviate is a synonym of shorten so your creating a difference where no difference stands. At least I, as a non English speaker, don’t see the difference so either the rule is badly written (since I can’t understand it) or makes no sense at all. In both cases the rule and the mod applying it are not working towards a betterment of the instance.
So why is this being implemented?
I have no idea about that. I was personally talking about something else completely, which I was wrong about and have apologized for, but since the other person removed the context, it’s a little confusing now.
Like I said in a different comment, I too am banned from r/news. Fortunately I can still see the posts. I just can’t engage with them.
This story is a clusterfuck and it’s not helpful in developing a better environment here on lemmy.
I’m sorry for your ban, I hope lemmy will federate a better news instance and that we could have meaningful discussions about actual topics and not the satire about a power hungry mod and his community.
Best of luck brother, keep lemmy great!!