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?

  • 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·
      4 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…