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!
In your next post on sdf, really push the boundaries and use contractions or, yikes, an acronym.
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.
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.
whats the point of being a mod if you dont get to do that though
Isn’t this the same server with that n4zi guy?
They took care of that.
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
I’m an SDF member and, I want to state openly that @[email protected] does not represent me, but is also making my laugh my ass off rn.
I’m an SDF member and, I want to state openly that @[email protected] does not represent me, but is also making my laugh my ass off rn.
Banned for using “rn” instead of “right now.”
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
What does SDF even mean? These abbreviations are getting out of hand and should be banned.
Super Dimensional Fortress. It’s an old public unix server and BBS. We’ve had some bad actors recently and insufficient admin coverage.
no abbreviations? that is the single most idiotic rule ive ever seen. what a fucking idiot.
Especially on sdf.org. I’m pretty sure SDF isn’t a word.
What does it stand for? I assume it’s not signed distance field
Super Dimension Fortress, I believe
I had no idea that was it. Honestly, it sounds like an early name for the Cybertruck.
My first thought was some sort of tower defense flash game.
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.
Correct.
Just from a brief glance, you’d think sdf would be super chill. But they were just having some other drama around a week ago. Now this.
ikr wtf jk
fr smh
You didn’t even break that rule, because an abbreviation is when you shortened a word to its first few letters, like ‘Inc.’ for ‘Incorporated’.
NYT is an initialism. NASA is an acronym. Neither are abbreviations.
Akshually
Being a pedant is fun but you need to get your shit straight. Abbreviation is an umbrella term that includes shortening of words or phrases in various ways including acronyms and initialisms.
It is if you don’t give a fuck about precise communication.
Usually this is what people who are too lazy or stupid to figure out how to be better people will act.
I’m sometimes lazy and/or stupid so i can confirm this with my own experience
Ab-brevis. It literally means “to shorten”. You’re confusing it with something else.
It’s social media. It’s not a submission for peer review
Oh the irony! Stahp, we can only take so much of it
Being wrong doesn’t make you any less of a cunt.
Unfortunately, you are likely wrong. “Abbreviation” — to my knowledge — is a borrow from French and simply means to shorten in time or length; nothing about words specifically, as you are suggesting.
“Abbreviation, N., Etymology.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, June 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/8875868501.
Pre-word meaning: “Abbreviation, N., Sense 1.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, June 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/1149358652.
Word meaning: “Abbreviation, N., Sense 2.b.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, June 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/3259923213.
It’s worth noting that the OED is, in its nature, a descriptive dictionary; therefore, this rather general definition should be taken with a grain of salt.
The word may — indeed, as it is common — have a more specific meaning, as you suggest.Edit:
Nope, you were definitely wrong (this time a free dictionary!):
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “abbreviation”. Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Jun. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/topic/abbreviation. Accessed 19 February 2025.
“Abbreviation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abbreviation. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
Im assuming snowwoman was correct, i didnt state the definition only used the argument i found
this is funny, so YDI
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.
Aren’t contractions (you’d, aren’t) a type of abbreviation too?
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!
Yeah and they’re refusing to explain where the policy is, or even what the policy is.
where the policy is, what the policy is.
And most of all, why the policy is.
Also how the policy is.
Oh policy, oh policy! Wherefore art thou policy!
These are my rules, you cannot have them!
its the abbreviations policy
D’oh!
AKA TAP.
An interesting decision from the moderators of the Signed Distance Field Organization
Or maybe from the Syrian Democratic Forces?
It’s Structured Data File, an SQL Compact database. Oh no, I said SQL, please don’t ba
Lol
Ikr
@[email protected] this you?
You see, it’s different when they do it.
this sounds just like an enforced jaywalking law
