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!
Thank you for informing me, as someone who tends to use acronyms quite frequently (usually adding the meaning in parenthesis for the first instance), I’ve gone ahead and blocked that community. I have zero interest in a news community that is enforcing rules that they are not publicly displaying, especially ones that don’t go under “common sense” principles.
Without the unwritten abbreviations policy we are animals
I see no such policy anywhere
It’s there. You just missed it because the rule is abbreviated.
See, in this timeline, the rules about abbreviation can be abbreviated, but not content.
This person is a PTB for sure, I mean seriously? Banning people for abbreviations? That’s outright petty. This person strikes me as one of the biggest losers I’ve seen on here in a while.
Oh and before some whiny asshole who’s probably an alt of the mod comes here whining about how they’re allowed to make whatever rules they want, they didn’t actually. I mean make any rule about it. The sidebar of their community literally says:
News StoriesSo this person is a power tripper because they are banning people for something that isn’t actually a rule, nor is it a common decency violation. It’s just purely and simply banning for spite.
I’ve straight blocked that News channel for this reason for some time. If the content is going to be filtered through the hands of mods this obnoxious, its not worth following.
Make up bullshit reasons when people post from or about a certain thing, and people will only think you are nutty instead of actively suppressing content. The fun benefit of doing this is that you can even do it when a community has more members of the type you want to suppress, you just do it occasionally and statistics slowly allow the content to be herded to where you are leading it. Troll factories love this one trick, as it is indistinguishable from actual power tripping mods.
A very common technique back on Reddit. The political subs loved to ban for petty or “humorous” reasons whenever a particular account got too popular. I remember /r/Libertarian banning an account for having too much accumulated karma. /r/neoliberal had all sorts of “joke” moderation rules they referenced to as posting monetary policy. It was all childish bullshit intended to filter who participated and narrow content down to whatever mods preferred.
whats the point of being a mod if you dont get to do that though
I’m an SDF member and, I want to state openly that @[email protected] does not represent me, but is also making my laugh my ass off rn.
I’m an SDF member and, I want to state openly that @[email protected] does not represent me, but is also making my laugh my ass off rn.
Banned for using “rn” instead of “right now.”
In your next post on sdf, really push the boundaries and use contractions or, yikes, an acronym.
I wonder if using the word taxi, instead of taximeter cabriolet, will prompt a ban.
Before we know it, people will be calling the popular public conveyance a ‘bus’, rather than the proper name of ‘Omnibus’.
Shock. Horror.
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
Excuse me, my name is also Taximeter Cabriolet
TheYMCA
Yes moderator, this guy right there.
Wait… Taxi Cab is short for something?
Depends how long the ride is.
The short version of Limousine ofc
“taximeter cabriolet”
Today, I learned!
That must be where “taxi cab” and “cab” came from too
close. “Cab” is derived from extracting the first syllable from Steve Caballeros’ last name. not just one of the great skaters, his family also invented the modern car and public transportation. so, as you can see, that is why when you rent out half of a taxi, you say, “I’m doin’ a ‘half cab!’” rather than a ca or an ab, as those are each ⅔ of a cab.
the math starts getting pretty wonky, when you get into renting tiny fractions of caballeros, which is why the Cabernet was invented - to make the entire process more straight forward.
hope that clears up everything!
Dude I had a Caballero board when I was a kid, I loved that thing.
🤯
“Where did the acronym touch you?”
It touched me in my P P
Pierre Polievre doesn’t belong to you
Ok, you know the rules. Get in the box.
kinky
omg
no abbreviations? that is the single most idiotic rule ive ever seen. what a fucking idiot.
Especially on sdf.org. I’m pretty sure SDF isn’t a word.
Just from a brief glance, you’d think sdf would be super chill. But they were just having some other drama around a week ago. Now this.
What does it stand for? I assume it’s not signed distance field
Super Dimension Fortress, I believe
Correct.
I had no idea that was it. Honestly, it sounds like an early name for the Cybertruck.
My first thought was some sort of tower defense flash game.
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
fr smh
That’s a hilarious rule in how stupid it is. Why on earth no abbreviations?
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.
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
Is it? I know what the NYT is because Im American. Im not sure if that acronym is universal.
Not American, but NYT is a media source acknowledged internationally. Most people would know the acronym, even if they are not americans, and for those who don’t, it’s the first result on Google.
Most people would know the acronym
I really doubt that but it’s not hard to figure out from the context. It’s like me writing Yle when talking about some news or sources. From context and a search you’d figure out that it’s a news org.
Don’t think people that are on Lemmy will have an issue figuring out. We are a bunch of nerds here.
Oh not at all, I was just saying I don’t think most people overall would know the acronym offhand. But if you meant people on Lemmy, it might be the case, especially with context.
In this case it is also the first result for me, but it happens quiet often that that is not the case for everybody. Especially now more and more people are abandoning Google
I don’t think it’ll be different on other search engines or AI assistants…
Often that is the case with abbreviations. Often it happens that there is a company with that name same thing with NYT B.V., but it’s almost non-existent so it doesn’t have a site. Or that something has a completely different meaning in another language which makes you get different results. It is more often than not that you can totally different results based on your location. Sometime some search engines give different results as well.
In a post about an article from the NYT, I think you should be able to figure it out.
I mean, I’m not british, but I know what BBC is
Both BBCs 😏
big beautiful cocks???
Big Badass Cats
Ball busting cougars
YES
(that subscribes me, right?)
The difference is the BBC is the name of the organisation, same for the NHS.
Notoriously Huge Shaft?
Naturally Hung Stud
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…”
What is this “e.g.”? I don’t speak Latin.
You need to spell out exempli gratia. That will definitely be more clear.
Damn. I’d best reach out to the mods and see if I can get myself banned for 26 years.
I’d?
Unleash the banhammer!
You need to spell out exempli grati
Banned: Spanish words.
Banned: Spanish words
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Sorry. eyetwitch dot graphical interchange format.
Nope, that’s Latin ;)
Would native English speakers understand f.ex. instead of i.e. or e.g.?
Smh I work with someone who write it as “for e.g.”
As if e.g. is an abbreviation for “example”
So I always read it as “for for example.”
I always wondered why english uses i.e. or e.g., I never actually looked into the actual abbreviated words. In portuguese, it’s always “for example” or “ex:”
I once worked with a guy who thought “smh” means “somehow”.
smh
I genuinely had to look up what it meant just now!
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
And that’d be fine. Remove the comment and explain why and what to do in the future.
That’s where you need to use AI acronym explanation browser extension! Only $3.99! /s
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”
jfc smh
You’ve been banned so hard for that comment i can’t even read it anymore
You’d best never talk about radar or scuba.
Aren’t contractions (you’d, aren’t) a type of abbreviation too?
Or ever say “goodbye”.
OK! Whatevs.
Told you not to use the N word
Am I the only one that finds this fucking hilarious?
Not at all!
