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!
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.