Thank you for informing me, as someone who tends to use acronyms quite frequently (usually adding the meaning in parenthesis for the first instance), I've gone ahead and blocked that community. I have zero interest in a news community that is enforcing rules that they are not publicly displaying, especially ones that don't go under "common sense" principles.

Without the unwritten abbreviations policy we are animals

I see no such policy anywhere

It’s there. You just missed it because the rule is abbreviated.

See, in this timeline, the rules about abbreviation can be abbreviated, but not content.

This person is a PTB for sure, I mean seriously? Banning people for abbreviations? That's outright petty. This person strikes me as one of the biggest losers I've seen on here in a while.

Oh and before some whiny asshole who's probably an alt of the mod comes here whining about how they're allowed to make whatever rules they want, they didn't actually. I mean make any rule about it. The sidebar of their community literally says:

News Stories

So this person is a power tripper because they are banning people for something that isn't actually a rule, nor is it a common decency violation. It's just purely and simply banning for spite.

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.

I’m an SDF member and, I want to state openly that @[email protected] does not represent me, but is also making my laugh my ass off rn.

I wonder if using the word taxi, instead of taximeter cabriolet, will prompt a ban.

In your next post on sdf, really push the boundaries and use contractions or, yikes, an acronym.

"Where did the acronym touch you?"

no abbreviations? that is the single most idiotic rule ive ever seen. what a fucking idiot.

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.

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?

Am I the only one that finds this fucking hilarious?

I think qrstuv is trolling you. They post some surreal stuff on other servers and don't seem to take anything on here seriously :)

To be fair you should have read the abbreviation policy before posting though.

Told you not to use the N word

That's a hilarious rule in how stupid it is. Why on earth no abbreviations?

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.

Do they also make people spell out diversity, equity, and inclusion? I might get behind that, because it changes it back from a meme rally point into a meaningful set of moral ideas.

There’s been another post about the same community (or was it same instance?) a week or two ago.

I remember the bans were because of NYT, USAID and probably others.

I don’t know if we had any explanation of what the fuck (sorry, meant to write ‘WTF’) is happening over there.

You really want a laugh, go look at the mod log on any community on dubvee.org

It’s like that instance was created for the sole purpose of scale testing high volumes of bans.

It’s like they have a whole system for synchronizing instance wide bans from comments made in other communities on other instances in the fediverse.

That isn't even power tripping, it's stupidity.

Which, it is power tripping, and grossly over reacting, but the stupidity is piled so much higher that the PTB part is miniscule in comparison