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!
Is it? I know what the NYT is because Im American. Im not sure if that acronym is universal.
In a post about an article from the NYT, I think you should be able to figure it out.
Not American, but NYT is a media source acknowledged internationally. Most people would know the acronym, even if they are not americans, and for those who don’t, it’s the first result on Google.
I really doubt that but it’s not hard to figure out from the context. It’s like me writing Yle when talking about some news or sources. From context and a search you’d figure out that it’s a news org.
Don’t think people that are on Lemmy will have an issue figuring out. We are a bunch of nerds here.
Oh not at all, I was just saying I don’t think most people overall would know the acronym offhand. But if you meant people on Lemmy, it might be the case, especially with context.
In this case it is also the first result for me, but it happens quiet often that that is not the case for everybody. Especially now more and more people are abandoning Google
I don’t think it’ll be different on other search engines or AI assistants…
Often that is the case with abbreviations. Often it happens that there is a company with that name same thing with NYT B.V., but it’s almost non-existent so it doesn’t have a site. Or that something has a completely different meaning in another language which makes you get different results. It is more often than not that you can totally different results based on your location. Sometime some search engines give different results as well.
I mean, I’m not british, but I know what BBC is
Both BBCs 😏
big beautiful cocks???
Big Badass Cats
Ball busting cougars
YES
(that subscribes me, right?)
The difference is the BBC is the name of the organisation, same for the NHS.
Notoriously Huge Shaft?
Naturally Hung Stud
I mean their reaction to acronyms are over the top, not specifically “NYT” itself. It’s certainly not worth banning anyone over.
What they could do is encourage people to define the acronym the first time they use ie, e.g. “The New York Times (NYT) reports that…”
What is this “e.g.”? I don’t speak Latin.
You need to spell out exempli gratia. That will definitely be more clear.
Damn. I’d best reach out to the mods and see if I can get myself banned for 26 years.
I’d?
Unleash the banhammer!
Banned: Spanish words.
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Sorry. eyetwitch dot graphical interchange format.
Nope, that’s Latin ;)
Would native English speakers understand f.ex. instead of i.e. or e.g.?
Smh I work with someone who write it as “for e.g.”
As if e.g. is an abbreviation for “example”
So I always read it as “for for example.”
I always wondered why english uses i.e. or e.g., I never actually looked into the actual abbreviated words. In portuguese, it’s always “for example” or “ex:”
I once worked with a guy who thought “smh” means “somehow”.
I genuinely had to look up what it meant just now!
plenty of science communities have acronym bots, and i find that excellent: they post a reply comment to any with known acronyms with a table defining their meanings. it can be super helpful!
this is the right way to do things: trying to control the way people usually interact is just never going to work well
And that’d be fine. Remove the comment and explain why and what to do in the future.