The mod of that community, qrstuv, is known to have weird opinions and enforces them heavy handedly. The no abbreviations thing is something that’s come up before, don’t know what their issue with the terms propaganda and kangaroo court is.
What’s also fun is that there’s not even a written rule against abbreviations on any of their communities (or any rules really), so I guess you just kind of have to know the personal dislikes of the mod before daring to try to comment on any of their communities.
This is a discussion forum. If someone doesn’t know what “ICBM” or “SDF” is an abbreviation is it’s reasonable to say “Hey, I don’t know what that it is.” It’s NOT very reasonable to ban anyone and everyone who comments on news articles. If qrstuv wants their community to be a particular way, they’ll get closer to that by communicating with users in threads about what the expectations are and what examples of good comments are. Removing comments with minimal explanation doesn’t help anyone understand what a good comment is or how they should be engaging in that community. The result has basically been what you see: !news@lemmy.sdf.org is a single user community without much engagement. Anyone who stumbles in and doesn’t know what they are in for is probable to get a removal
The mod of that community, qrstuv, is known to have weird opinions and enforces them heavy handedly. The no abbreviations thing is something that’s come up before, don’t know what their issue with the terms propaganda and kangaroo court is.
What’s also fun is that there’s not even a written rule against abbreviations on any of their communities (or any rules really), so I guess you just kind of have to know the personal dislikes of the mod before daring to try to comment on any of their communities.
See every writing style guide ever created.
Mods, ban them for not including a reference page in their comment.
So how do I know where bad writing style is a bannable offence and where it isn’t? Clearly on this comment of yours, it was fine to use abbreviations.
This is a discussion forum. If someone doesn’t know what “ICBM” or “SDF” is an abbreviation is it’s reasonable to say “Hey, I don’t know what that it is.” It’s NOT very reasonable to ban anyone and everyone who comments on news articles. If qrstuv wants their community to be a particular way, they’ll get closer to that by communicating with users in threads about what the expectations are and what examples of good comments are. Removing comments with minimal explanation doesn’t help anyone understand what a good comment is or how they should be engaging in that community. The result has basically been what you see: !news@lemmy.sdf.org is a single user community without much engagement. Anyone who stumbles in and doesn’t know what they are in for is probable to get a removal
Did i wander into EngLit 101? No? I’m on the internet?
Stfu.