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!
no abbreviations? that is the single most idiotic rule ive ever seen. what a fucking idiot.
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What does it stand for? I assume it’s not signed distance field
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Correct.
I had no idea that was it. Honestly, it sounds like an early name for the Cybertruck.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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?
@qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org this you?
You see, it’s different when they do it.
There’s been another post about the same community (or was it same instance?) a week or two ago.
I remember the bans were because of NYT, USAID and probably others.
I don’t know if we had any explanation of what the fuck (sorry, meant to write ‘WTF’) is happening over there.
Yup, it’s not a new one: https://lemmy.cafe/post/13017274
Thanks, I was searching for keyword “abbreviations” and not “acronym” so couldn’t find the post.
Ah thank you. I didn’t even think to look, I was too much in a state of disbelief
their instance’s own fucking domain name is not… “lemmy.superdimensionfortress.org”
Honestly, SDF is becoming the home of the bad weirdos. There’s constant examples like this one coming from them, not to mention CSAM staying up for way too long without them handling it etc. They really need to get their shit together before the threadiverse has enough and just summarily defeds them.
PTB
“qrstuv” isn’t an abbreviation. It’s the alphabet dawg
Lmao so it is! Good catch
Are they having a psychotic break into bipolar or are they extremely autistic? Focusing on what would appear to be odd details and reacting beyond what everyone else does, does occur, but it’s not typical behavior for people outside certain diagnosable zones. This feels almost arbitrary, otherwise.
Unless it’s a weird Elon thing to try to never say USAID on social media and using a broad rule to do it and hide it at the same time. Even that idea is stretching and should belong in the tinfoil hat club. Maybe not on this timeline, it’s hard to say.
What’s weird is that they’ve allowed other people to comment with acronyms, and they themselves have used acronyms elsewhere on other posts.
If you look into those other peoples modlog you’ll see theve been banned too.
But yeah, the mod themselves has no problem using acronyms.
So they’re banning people for acronyms but keeping their comments? I don’t know if there’s a word to describe that strangeness.
And then they lock the post.
None of it makes any sense.Maybe they want an RSS feed on Lemmy but don’t know how to set up a bot? It’s strange.
RSS
Banned! No acronyms, buddy!
Curses! Foiled again!
I’m not your acronym, pal!
Drugs?
Hypocrisy
Extremely autistic is something i considered. I can’t think of any other reason, really. They won’t explain any of it, so we have to guess and assume.
Considering the special interest nature of a pubnix instance, I think that those who are there for that have a higher chance of neurodivergence.
It doesn’t really matter what they are, it’s downright petty, and shows a certain level of incompetency to moderate a community properly and fairly. At the end of the day a person like this should not be moderating a community.
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.
news@sdf is ran by a crazy right wing lunatic. I am banned from there and I do not recall posting on it. SDF is nice because it federates with everything but the communities here are wild west.
That explains a lot actually.
Yeah i read a post about wanting SDF at large to put effort into the lemmy and mastodon branches. I see the pain you guys are going though.I do not take the local front page very seriously but we do have some funny smaller communities like bun_alert. My favorite post was a stupid rant by the admin on the rant community.
“Where did the acronym touch you?”
It touched me in my P P
Ok, you know the rules. Get in the box.
kinky
omg
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.
I wasn’t the only one banned for it haha
