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!

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

            • TachyonTele@lemm.eeOP
              01·
              2 years ago

              Give it a rest. Find something else to nitpick to death. You’re not being clever.

              • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                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.

  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
    4·
    2 years ago

    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
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    2 years ago

    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

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    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?

  • jaybone@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • TheObviousSolution@kbin.melroy.org
    0·
    2 years ago

    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
      0·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    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!