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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"qrstuv" isn't an abbreviation. It's the alphabet dawg

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Told you not to use the N word

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

What a clown show.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

news@sdf is ran by a crazy right wing lunatic. I am banned from there and I do not recall posting on it. SDF is nice because it federates with everything but the communities here are wild west.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That explains a lot actually.
Yeah i read a post about wanting SDF at large to put effort into the lemmy and mastodon branches. I see the pain you guys are going though.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Where did the acronym touch you?"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok, you know the rules. Get in the box.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Are they having a psychotic break into bipolar or are they extremely autistic? Focusing on what would appear to be odd details and reacting beyond what everyone else does, does occur, but it’s not typical behavior for people outside certain diagnosable zones. This feels almost arbitrary, otherwise.

Unless it’s a weird Elon thing to try to never say USAID on social media and using a broad rule to do it and hide it at the same time. Even that idea is stretching and should belong in the tinfoil hat club. Maybe not on this timeline, it’s hard to say.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's weird is that they've allowed other people to comment with acronyms, and they themselves have used acronyms elsewhere on other posts.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you look into those other peoples modlog you'll see theve been banned too.

But yeah, the mod themselves has no problem using acronyms.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So they're banning people for acronyms but keeping their comments? I don't know if there's a word to describe that strangeness.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

And then they lock the post.
None of it makes any sense.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Extremely autistic is something i considered. I can't think of any other reason, really. They won't explain any of it, so we have to guess and assume.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

this sounds just like an enforced jaywalking law

[–] i_stole_ur_taco 14 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

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.”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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