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!
no abbreviations? that is the single most idiotic rule ive ever seen. what a fucking idiot.
ikr wtf jk
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.
I recall commenting last time this community came up that it was weird that NYT was allowed when other abbreviations were not. I guess their mod caught up. It’s a dumb rule, but even ignoring that, it’s not listed in the community!
Yeah and they’re refusing to explain where the policy is, or even what the policy is.
where the policy is, what the policy is.
And most of all, why the policy is.
Oh policy, oh policy! Wherefore art thou policy!
These are my rules, you cannot have them!
Oh no, saying “the US” is also a bannable abbreviation! Lol! What in the world
Lol
6 day ban! You must type “laughing out loud”
jfc smh
You’ve been banned so hard for that comment i can’t even read it anymore
You’d best never talk about radar or scuba.
Aren’t contractions (you’d, aren’t) a type of abbreviation too?
Or ever say “goodbye”.
It gets dumber:
The user was banned for saying “mark my words”. And in the context it is clearly not some sort of threat, just an “I’m 100% sure of that”.
PTB.
[]The mod is just a flat out troll. They’ve proven that for sure during this drama-fest.
They run a news comm and ban anyone that comments before they can lock the post. It’s very strange and, quite frankly, pretty dumb.
I wonder if using the word taxi, instead of taximeter cabriolet, will prompt a ban.
“taximeter cabriolet”
Today, I learned!
That must be where “taxi cab” and “cab” came from too
close. “Cab” is derived from extracting the first syllable from Steve Caballeros’ last name. not just one of the great skaters, his family also invented the modern car and public transportation. so, as you can see, that is why when you rent out half of a taxi, you say, “I’m doin’ a ‘half cab!’” rather than a ca or an ab, as those are each ⅔ of a cab.
the math starts getting pretty wonky, when you get into renting tiny fractions of caballeros, which is why the Cabernet was invented - to make the entire process more straight forward.
hope that clears up everything!
Dude I had a Caballero board when I was a kid, I loved that thing.
If I were a mod, I’d ban anyone who used “taximeter cabriolet” on sight. /s
You are banned, you should have used “I would” instead of “I’d”
They also dared to say “mod” and not “moderator”. That’s added moderator disrespect, and we cannot allow that!
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.
Isn’t SDF an abbreviation too ?
Yes.
You forgot the /s this is the Internet and some people like OP will take you seriously…
yea I don’t know what’s going on with that comm and/or moderation. In general sdf seems to be one of the lightest-touch-moderated instances out there so this is really surprising
People don’t seem to differentiate much between an instance and its individual communities, even if the instance has a really light touch with mods.
After unblocking it I realized I recognize a bunch of people on SDF. You guys and gals are pretty solid. Except for this one person.
I blocked the entire instance because of this. Why would i want to read posts i can’t even take part in, you know.
Thank you for letting us know that person isn’t the entire instance. I’ll unblock it.
I mean, it should be general knowledge at this point that instance admins and comm mods are not the same thing.
I never said they were the admin.
Yeah but… if you’re aware of the difference, why block an entire instance over one mod’s actions?
Thank you for letting us know that person isn’t the entire instance. I’ll unblock it.
Glad to hear it. We’ve got some fantastic retrotech and FOSS rabbit holes for you to get stuck in, if that’s your kind of thing.
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.
Am I the only one that finds this fucking hilarious?
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.
Having been inspired by the Core Wars at an impressionable age, I just thought of a truly perverted version that could be enacted on a dedicated Lemmy “shitpost” community. The community would have a committee-designed list of moderation rules (including that nonsense, irrelevant or data-flooding posts/comments are ban-worthy), and teams would develop LLM-based agents as the Lemmy-bot equivalent of Core War “redcode”. The two bots would be simultaneously unleashed on the channel as the only posters, commenters, and mods, armed with internet-access to find links for posting and commenting on. Every time a bot does a ban on the opposing bot the game is paused for the human adjudicators to decide if the ban is valid based on conversational context. A bot wins a round when it achieves 3 valid bans, or when the opposing bot reaches 3 invalid bans. A yearly tournament could be held. The winning team’s bot would have to be exceptionally good at finding & posting links, and reading & commenting on them, and replying to opposition comments in ways that induce the opposing bot into footgunning in bannable ways. I think it would be critically important to not give the bots access to the Dark Web when finding links to post, otherwise things would get harrowingly nasty really fast.
I don’t remember Core Wars. But dubvee.org very much reminds me of SRS on Reddit.
Ah Srs, the original boogeyman of all reddit shitLords
Is/was SRS “shit reddit says”, or am I confused?
First part correct. It got banned for getting just a hair too extreme. And by a little I mean a lot, like repeatedly brigading posts that found themselves x-posted to SRS.
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.
Yup, it’s not a new one: https://lemmy.cafe/post/13017274
And before that, weren’t they having problems with some white supremacist running coms over there and then they couldn’t find an admin available to instance ban them? smh
For like 24 hours. As internet things go, that’s not a long time. A much bigger deal was made out of it than it deserved.
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’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.
Banned for using “rn” instead of “right now.”
They’ve locked every post so I guess they don’t really want any community whatsoever.
their instance’s own fucking domain name is not… “lemmy.superdimensionfortress.org”
What happens if you write GNU since that’s a recursive acronym?
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
After they finish expanding it
