The community’s sidebar doesn’t list a single rule so I don’t know how they expect to get users to fall in line if it’s completely unspoken.

Anyway this is a rare case of a very tiny community where no one is getting hurt so it’s not a huge deal. But if you plan on discussing news using any kind of acronym I guess don’t go there lmao.

Thoughts welcome! Am I missing something?

  • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    I like that the only ban reason in the list I noticed which wasn’t for an acronym was for “reaction GIF”

    They ought to have banned them for “reaction graphical image format”

  • UniversalMonkEnglish
    32·
    13 hours ago

    Definitely PTB! I gotta say tho, I hate most acronyms. lol

  • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Y’know, I’m someone who gets unreasonably annoyed when encountering an unfamiliar acronym, but even I think banning someone for using one is going too far.

    That said, none of these acronyms are without enough context to figure out what they are. Everyone knows what LOL means. USAID is an acronym where the acronym describes what the organization does. CJR is present in a thread about Columbia Journalism Review.

    As a general rule, if you define your Three Letter Acronyms (TLA), then they’re no longer a barrier to understanding. And then you can use whatever TLA you like. See how easy that is?

    Where they banned LOL and a reaction gif, if I had to guess the rule being violated would be about low-effort discussion. And again, I kind of sympathise with the desire to have meaningful discussion and I see where getting a message that just says “lol” could take the wind out of your sails. Banning is still overkill and alienating to your users though.

    There’s a certain amount of irony if you consider a rule against low-effort discussion in a community that was made with such low-effort that they didn’t define and publish their rules

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      There’s a certain amount of irony if you consider a rule against low-effort discussion in a community that was made with such low-effort that they didn’t define and publish their rules

      Also, the moderation action itself is low-effort. Apply critical thinking to clean up spam and enforce community rules while also encouraging discussion and user participation? No, just delete and banhammer anything even slightly nuanced…

    • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 days ago

      Incorrect on USAID. The acronym is meant to imply it’s primarily focused on aid, but that’s an intentional mislead to deflect from their actual mission of espionage and regime change operations.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    3·
    2 days ago

    Malicious compliance time. Define every acronym, regardless of whether or is in common usage or not. For recursive acronyms, just keep it going until you hit the comment character limit.

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Or just never use acronyms. That could get very opaque.

      Imagine a story about USAID that never used the acronym and always spelled it out in full

      Or one about how ITER, being a TOKAMAK plasma power generation research system is completely different to the LASER based plasma research system

      Link a picture and describe it as duck.graphical interchange format

    • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Define every acronym, but define them wrong (lmao is an abbreviation for Little Mao, indicating a person with an overdeveloped sense of power over a little, inconsequential item.)

    • tychosmoose@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 days ago

      That would be painful for GNU (GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for GNU’s Not Unix, where the first part stands for…

  • diplodocus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    I got a two week ban from it yesterday for abbreviating Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) the day before 🤷 I was commenting on the posted CJR article.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    What’s weird is I see a comment on that community using the acronym NYT, so I’m not sure this silly rule is even being applied evenly

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    01·
    2 days ago

    Define ‘comms’. I’ll stand by on the radio.

    Subverting the meaning of words for some in-clique signaling is tangential, at best.

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Radio abbreviates communications to comms.

      Lemmy abbreviates community to comm.

      There’s no conflict, no danger of confusion

  • ADKSilence@kbin.earth
    0·
    2 days ago

    I mean, if in the context those posts were low-effort and didn’t contribute to the thread in any meaningful way, I could understand. Like sharing nothing but a reaction gif in a discussion heavy community could be seen as “low effort”.

    But common acronyms? Yeah, that’s definitely a strange thing.

    Also, isn’t GIF itself an acronym? something-or-other Image Format?

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      0·
      2 days ago

      tbh i didn’t mean to leave in the reaction gif modlog entry that was a mistake on my end

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        That made it especially fun, as the mod used the acronym “GIF” (graphical interchange format)

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    0·
    2 days ago

    They also banned someone for a reaction gif. An automod that they gave banning powers to, maybe?

    Otherwise, seems to be PTB.