I waited so long to come forward and tell my story because I didn't think anyone would believe me. But now I want people to know what happened to me, because if knowing what happened to me could prevent it happening to them, then I want them to know.
Is it really that hard to provide this poster with a reference to the policy against abbreviations you state exists? Also, what kind of policy is that? You do understand you would have to ban anyone using "you'd, can't, I'm, etc." since these are all abbreviations?
Please explain yourself as this seems to be a very concerning way to moderate an instance as big as yours
edit: Contractions are abbreviations! I was wrong!
Says who?
Sorry, I don't use google. ~~But I do know what an acronym is. It's when you only take the initial letters of a phrase. Like SDF. That's an acronym. Acronyms are also abbreviations, because they shorten the phrase.~~
Hope this helps.
That's fine, I have no trouble admitting I was wrong!
Not sure how they responded, but that's technically not an acronym, as it would need to be sounded out as if a word (e.g. NASA or laser, but not CIA or UTI).
SDF would be an initialism, but not an acronym. Just for your awareness.
Thanks!
Says who? If you contract word aren't you also abbreviating them? This goes to show that policies like this (should this exist in the first place, of course) makes absolutely no sense at all
English grammar. You can abbreviate a wooden log with a chainsaw, but you can't abbreviate a word grammatically by cutting off the beginning of it.
y ad! (That's my bad, but I abbreviated it!)
Abbreviate is a synonym of shorten so your creating a difference where no difference stands. At least I, as a non English speaker, don't see the difference so either the rule is badly written (since I can't understand it) or makes no sense at all. In both cases the rule and the mod applying it are not working towards a betterment of the instance.
So why is this being implemented?
I have no idea about that. I was personally talking about something else completely, which I was wrong about and have apologized for, but since the other person removed the context, it's a little confusing now.
Like I said in a different comment, I too am banned from r/news. Fortunately I can still see the posts. I just can't engage with them.
This story is a clusterfuck and it's not helpful in developing a better environment here on lemmy.
I'm sorry for your ban, I hope lemmy will federate a better news instance and that we could have meaningful discussions about actual topics and not the satire about a power hungry mod and his community.
Best of luck brother, keep lemmy great!!
Also, usernames do not necessarily mean anything, ever. It seems like a diversion tactic in an attempt to whine about being banned.
I actually found it in the other linked thread, but thanks!