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!
Oh no, saying “the US” is also a bannable abbreviation! Lol! What in the world
What happens if you write GNU since that’s a recursive acronym?
Lots of mod WINEing
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
After they finish expanding it
Spam GNU everywhere to occupy all their threads.
no abbreviations? that is the single most idiotic rule ive ever seen. what a fucking idiot.
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.
I mean, it should be general knowledge at this point that instance admins and comm mods are not the same thing.
I never said they were the admin.
Yeah but… if you’re aware of the difference, why block an entire instance over one mod’s actions?
Give it a rest. Find something else to nitpick to death. You’re not being clever.
They’re not trying to be clever. They’re saying your prior actions weren’t logical. You shouldn’t block instances for what mods do. You should block communities. If everyone blocked instances so swiftly then the fediverse will become little islands.
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.
its the abbreviations policy
its the abbreviations policy
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
Another instance to block.
The Fediverse gets a little smaller
Why would you block a whole instance if you don’t like the actions in just one of its communities?
