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.

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

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.

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.

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

Without the unwritten abbreviations policy we are animals

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?

Am I the only one that finds this fucking hilarious?

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.

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.

I’m an SDF member and, I want to state openly that @qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org does not represent me, but is also making my laugh my ass off rn.

"Where did the acronym touch you?"

Told you not to use the N word

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.

In your next post on sdf, really push the boundaries and use contractions or, yikes, an acronym.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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"

Do they also make people spell out diversity, equity, and inclusion? I might get behind that, because it changes it back from a meme rally point into a meaningful set of moral ideas.

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.

@qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org this you?