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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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (31 children)

Is it? I know what the NYT is because Im American. Im not sure if that acronym is universal.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Not American, but NYT is a media source acknowledged internationally. Most people would know the acronym, even if they are not americans, and for those who don't, it's the first result on Google.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Most people would know the acronym

    I really doubt that but it's not hard to figure out from the context. It's like me writing Yle when talking about some news or sources. From context and a search you'd figure out that it's a news org.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    In this case it is also the first result for me, but it happens quiet often that that is not the case for everybody. Especially now more and more people are abandoning Google

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think it'll be different on other search engines or AI assistants...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Often that is the case with abbreviations. Often it happens that there is a company with that name same thing with NYT B.V., but it's almost non-existent so it doesn't have a site. Or that something has a completely different meaning in another language which makes you get different results. It is more often than not that you can totally different results based on your location. Sometime some search engines give different results as well.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    I mean their reaction to acronyms are over the top, not specifically "NYT" itself. It's certainly not worth banning anyone over.

    What they could do is encourage people to define the acronym the first time they use ie, e.g. "The New York Times (NYT) reports that..."

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    What is this “e.g.”? I don’t speak Latin.

    You need to spell out exempli gratia. That will definitely be more clear.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Would native English speakers understand f.ex. instead of i.e. or e.g.?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Smh I work with someone who write it as “for e.g.”

    As if e.g. is an abbreviation for “example”

    So I always read it as “for for example.”

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    plenty of science communities have acronym bots, and i find that excellent: they post a reply comment to any with known acronyms with a table defining their meanings. it can be super helpful!

    this is the right way to do things: trying to control the way people usually interact is just never going to work well

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