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

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 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.

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

no abbreviations? that is the single most idiotic rule ive ever seen. what a fucking idiot.

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

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.

What happens if you write GNU since that's a recursive acronym?

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.

Am I the only one that finds this fucking hilarious?

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.

"Where did the acronym touch you?"

I'm a member of the SDF instance and I've reported this. I hope it gets attention and action. I don't appreciate someone making us look like clowns.

Told you not to use the N word

In your next post on sdf, really push the boundaries and use contractions or, yikes, an acronym.

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.

That's a hilarious rule in how stupid it is. Why on earth no abbreviations?

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.

You really want a laugh, go look at the mod log on any community on dubvee.org

It’s like that instance was created for the sole purpose of scale testing high volumes of bans.

It’s like they have a whole system for synchronizing instance wide bans from comments made in other communities on other instances in the fediverse.

Do they also make people spell out diversity, equity, and inclusion? I might get behind that, because it changes it back from a meme rally point into a meaningful set of moral ideas.

That isn't even power tripping, it's stupidity.

Which, it is power tripping, and grossly over reacting, but the stupidity is piled so much higher that the PTB part is miniscule in comparison

I recall commenting last time this community came up that it was weird that NYT was allowed when other abbreviations were not. I guess their mod caught up. It’s a dumb rule, but even ignoring that, it’s not listed in the community!

their instance's own fucking domain name is not.... "lemmy.superdimensionfortress.org"

They've locked every post so I guess they don't really want any community whatsoever.

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.

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

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.

That place is eerie. Their sidebar has zero rules for me. But more importantly, who uses Corporate Memphis art? Feels like an outsider set it up.

Possibly an automod bot?

What is SDF?

Also, since the rules aren't written down, I wonder if they would object to defined acronyms. Like if I wrote "laughing out loud (lol)" in a comment, could I use the acronym later in the same comment? Could I use it in a subsequent comment? Could other people?

news@sdf is ran by a crazy right wing lunatic. I am banned from there and I do not recall posting on it. SDF is nice because it federates with everything but the communities here are wild west.

"qrstuv" isn't an abbreviation. It's the alphabet dawg

Sounds like the mod had some kinda mental episode where they imagined some non existent rules. Maybe they were sleep walking and happened to open their phone lol.

What a clown show.

this sounds just like an enforced jaywalking law

Are they having a psychotic break into bipolar or are they extremely autistic? Focusing on what would appear to be odd details and reacting beyond what everyone else does, does occur, but it’s not typical behavior for people outside certain diagnosable zones. This feels almost arbitrary, otherwise.

Unless it’s a weird Elon thing to try to never say USAID on social media and using a broad rule to do it and hide it at the same time. Even that idea is stretching and should belong in the tinfoil hat club. Maybe not on this timeline, it’s hard to say.

An interesting decision from the moderators of the Signed Distance Field Organization

Or maybe from the Syrian Democratic Forces?

Isn't this the same server with that n4zi guy?

this is funny, so YDI

Lol

Sounds like crazy-making with the way they've got you questioning the obvious... does the sun really rise in the east, will it really hurt if I jump off this bridge, can fish really survive under water 🤪

Amén to that! Fuck abbreviations and Americanisms, lemmy is for the whole world.

Another instance to block.

The Fediverse gets a little smaller

The funny thing is that this mod has used a bunch of acronyms in their post and comment history.