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!

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 天前

    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.

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
    12·
    2 天前

    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.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    181·
    2 天前

    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 Stories

    So 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.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 天前

      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.

  • TheObviousSolution@kbin.melroy.org
    14·
    2 天前

    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.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 天前

      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.

    • Scroll Responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org
      17·
      2 天前

      I’m an SDF member and, I want to state openly that @qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org does not represent me, but is also making my laugh my ass off rn.

      Banned for using “rn” instead of “right now.”

  • kipo@lemm.eeEnglish
    70·
    3 天前

    I wonder if using the word taxi, instead of taximeter cabriolet, will prompt a ban.

  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
    124·
    3 天前

    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.

    • asret@lemmy.zip
      101·
      3 天前

      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.

      • Constant Pain@lemmy.world
        42·
        3 天前

        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.

        • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
          3·
          2 天前

          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.

            • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
              1·
              2 天前

              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.

        • Vinstaal0@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 天前

          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

            • Vinstaal0@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 天前

              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.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        14·
        3 天前

        In a post about an article from the NYT, I think you should be able to figure it out.

      • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
        281·
        3 天前

        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…”

        • jaybone@lemmy.world
          37·
          3 天前

          What is this “e.g.”? I don’t speak Latin.

          You need to spell out exempli gratia. That will definitely be more clear.

        • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
          6·
          3 天前

          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

    • Matriks404@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 天前

      That’s where you need to use AI acronym explanation browser extension! Only $3.99! /s

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeOP
    1571·
    3 天前

    Oh no, saying “the US” is also a bannable abbreviation! Lol! What in the world

  • OmegaMouse@pawb.social
    204·
    2 天前

    I think qrstuv is trolling you. They post some surreal stuff on other servers and don’t seem to take anything on here seriously :)

    To be fair you should have read the abbreviation policy before posting though.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      81·
      2 天前

      This is kind of my favorite thing on Lemmy right now.

      I used to be part of forums where like one forum, the mod was a person who demanded sources with every comment. So you’d write everything like you’re submitting it to a college professor.

      Then another forum, the mod wants everyone to roleplay as their forest animals.

      Reddit made us forget how to be weird.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.eeOP
        83·
        2 天前

        If they had simply said at any point “I’m messing around” or taking a piss, I’d have 180’d and laughed. But they won’t say anything useful. So it’s whatever.