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?

  • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    29 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

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    6·
    29 days ago

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

    Otherwise, seems to be PTB.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    29 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

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    3·
    29 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.

    • tychosmoose@lemm.ee
      0·
      29 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…

  • ADKSilence@kbin.earth
    3·
    29 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
      2·
      29 days ago

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

      • ADKSilence@kbin.earth
        0·
        29 days ago

        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.

    • tychosmoose@lemm.ee
      1·
      29 days ago

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

      It is! Jraphics Interchange Format.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
    0·
    29 days ago

    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]

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      0·
      29 days ago

      “ngl” is an abbreviation, any last words before the firing squad?