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!
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.
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.
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
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.
Or ever say “goodbye”.
OK! Whatevs.
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.
What happens if you write GNU since that’s a recursive acronym?
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
After they finish expanding it
Banned for spamming
Arch btw
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
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.
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.”
I wonder if using the word taxi, instead of taximeter cabriolet, will prompt a ban.
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
“taximeter cabriolet”
Today, I learned!
That must be where “taxi cab” and “cab” came from too
🤯
Wait… Taxi Cab is short for something?
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.
Isn’t SDF an abbreviation too ?
Yes.
I blocked the entire instance because of this. Why would i want to read posts i can’t even take part in, you know.
Thank you for letting us know that person isn’t the entire instance. I’ll unblock it.
I mean, it should be general knowledge at this point that instance admins and comm mods are not the same thing.
I never said they were the admin.
Yeah but… if you’re aware of the difference, why block an entire instance over one mod’s actions?
Give it a rest. Find something else to nitpick to death. You’re not being clever.
They’re not trying to be clever. They’re saying your prior actions weren’t logical. You shouldn’t block instances for what mods do. You should block communities. If everyone blocked instances so swiftly then the fediverse will become little islands.
Wow people are not chill
Thank you for letting us know that person isn’t the entire instance. I’ll unblock it.
Glad to hear it. We’ve got some fantastic retrotech and FOSS rabbit holes for you to get stuck in, if that’s your kind of thing.
yea I don’t know what’s going on with that comm and/or moderation. In general sdf seems to be one of the lightest-touch-moderated instances out there so this is really surprising
After unblocking it I realized I recognize a bunch of people on SDF. You guys and gals are pretty solid. Except for this one person.
“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
Am I the only one that finds this fucking hilarious?
Not at all!
Without the unwritten abbreviations policy we are animals
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.
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.
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.
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.
In your next post on sdf, really push the boundaries and use contractions or, yikes, an acronym.
