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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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A pet peeve of mine is when people randomly throw acronyms around expecting everyone to just know what it means, but this is taking the piss.
Yeah, I'm okay with discouraging abbreviations. But a blanket ban is silly.
Comments on a post about a New York Times article regarding the United States should probably be fine to use NYT & US.
Comments talking about the best computer role playing game going on and on about PoE2 deserve a ban however.
Power over Ethernet 2 when??
Is it? I know what the NYT is because Im American. Im not sure if that acronym is universal.
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.
In a post about an article from the NYT, I think you should be able to figure it out.
I mean, I'm not british, but I know what BBC is
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The difference is the BBC is the name of the organisation, same for the NHS.
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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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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.
I work in marketing and it's not fun anymore please take me off this ride
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