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am i missing something or is this comm enforcing rules against… acronyms?

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?

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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
- 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...
- People use lol to express discomfort lol not just to laugh
- One rule for thee, while a different one...
  
  ...for acronyms?
- That CJR story is a weird one. They locked the post and it only has one comment…
  @qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org can you explain what your reasoning behind these actions are?
- 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.

PTB. AFAIK, RTFM N/A. NGL, NIMBY! YMMV, TTYL.

Another day, another SDF story
- Banned. Abbreviations: “SDF” https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/16626067
  
  😂

Wtf? PTB! Fr.

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.
- 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...
  
  You didn't hit the character limit...
- 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.)

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.

What the fuck. I have a bone to pick against most usage of lol/lmao and yet not even I would ban people for using them.
PTB all the way, FFS. [USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST]

They also banned someone for a reaction gif. An automod that they gave banning powers to, maybe?
Otherwise, seems to be PTB.
- Banned. Abbreviations: “PTB” https://reddthat.com/comment/16543812
  
  lol …
  …
  wait, ah fuck
  [Banned]

That's a very strange rule ngl
- “ngl” is an abbreviation, any last words before the firing squad?
- NGL? Banned for abbreviation...
  ...wait a second.... shit.

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?
- Also, isn't GIF itself an acronym? something-or-other Image Format?
  It is! Jraphics Interchange Format.
  
  I see what you did there.
  Also, you're pronouncing it wrong!
- tbh i didn’t mean to leave in the reaction gif modlog entry that was a mistake on my end
  
  Oh, I just mentioned it as a point of interest when discussing banning "acronyms". Wasn't meant to call you, the OP, out or anything. Just found it funny that mods would ban for acronyms, yet in the messages, use an acronym.

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

Gif
Lol
Aids
- Banned (expires in 300 years)
- long ago the three nations lived together in harmony

Bizarre...

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- iaDPHtcaptbsmhmh

Define 'comms'. I'll stand by on the radio.
Subverting the meaning of words for some in-clique signaling is tangential, at best.
- girl i put zero thought into using the word comm, i have no clue where i picked it up. your demand for an explanation is the real tangent if we’re being really honest. go make your own post.

comm
So fetch.
- stop trying to make comm not a thing it's already a thing
  
  What is comm?

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