this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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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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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!

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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!

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 37 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Yeah and they're refusing to explain where the policy is, or even what the policy is.

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 3 days ago (3 children)

where the policy is, what the policy is.

And most of all, why the policy is.

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[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago

They've locked every post so I guess they don't really want any community whatsoever.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 42 points 3 days ago

their instance's own fucking domain name is not.... "lemmy.superdimensionfortress.org"

[–] Snowwomen@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 3 days ago (9 children)

You didn't even break that rule, because an abbreviation is when you shortened a word to its first few letters, like 'Inc.' for 'Incorporated'.

NYT is an initialism. NASA is an acronym. Neither are abbreviations.

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[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 24 points 3 days ago

You see, it's different when they do it.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Honestly, SDF is becoming the home of the bad weirdos. There's constant examples like this one coming from them, not to mention CSAM staying up for way too long without them handling it etc. They really need to get their shit together before the threadiverse has enough and just summarily defeds them.

PTB

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

What does SDF even mean? These abbreviations are getting out of hand and should be banned.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 days ago

Super Dimensional Fortress. It's an old public unix server and BBS. We've had some bad actors recently and insufficient admin coverage.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] mhague@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That place is eerie. Their sidebar has zero rules for me. But more importantly, who uses Corporate Memphis art? Feels like an outsider set it up.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The mod keeps replying to me in DM, but has repeatedly refused to answer any questions about thier supposed policy.

They're also aware of this post, but won't say a word here.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Trolling and then watching the chaos from afar?

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (11 children)

What is SDF?

Also, since the rules aren't written down, I wonder if they would object to defined acronyms. Like if I wrote "laughing out loud (lol)" in a comment, could I use the acronym later in the same comment? Could I use it in a subsequent comment? Could other people?

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