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!
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.