I waited so long to come forward and tell my story because I didn't think anyone would believe me. But now I want people to know what happened to me, because if knowing what happened to me could prevent it happening to them, then I want them to know.
Is it really that hard to provide this poster with a reference to the policy against abbreviations you state exists? Also, what kind of policy is that? You do understand you would have to ban anyone using "you'd, can't, I'm, etc." since these are all abbreviations?
Please explain yourself as this seems to be a very concerning way to moderate an instance as big as yours
Says who? If you contract word aren't you also abbreviating them? This goes to show that policies like this (should this exist in the first place, of course) makes absolutely no sense at all
Abbreviate is a synonym of shorten so your creating a difference where no difference stands. At least I, as a non English speaker, don't see the difference so either the rule is badly written (since I can't understand it) or makes no sense at all. In both cases the rule and the mod applying it are not working towards a betterment of the instance.
I have no idea about that. I was personally talking about something else completely, which I was wrong about and have apologized for, but since the other person removed the context, it's a little confusing now.
Like I said in a different comment, I too am banned from r/news. Fortunately I can still see the posts. I just can't engage with them.
This story is a clusterfuck and it's not helpful in developing a better environment here on lemmy.
I'm sorry for your ban, I hope lemmy will federate a better news instance and that we could have meaningful discussions about actual topics and not the satire about a power hungry mod and his community.