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. [USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST]

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

Oh no, saying "the US" is also a bannable abbreviation! Lol! What in the world

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.

What happens if you write GNU since that's a recursive acronym?

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.

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

Am I the only one that finds this fucking hilarious?

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.

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!

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"

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

@[email protected] this you?

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

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.

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?

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.

Sounds like the mod had some kinda mental episode where they imagined some non existent rules. Maybe they were sleep walking and happened to open their phone lol.