# I Pit ILMVI for Complaining Incessantly About Acronyms **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 29, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ilmvi-for-complaining-incessantly-about-acronyms/943142 "2021-05-29T01:49:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 175
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ilmvi-for-complaining-incessantly-about-acronyms/943142/175 "2021-06-01T02:31:33Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > By the way, if anyone would like a good online source for finding out what acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms stand for, [this is my go-to site.](https://www.acronymfinder.com) It’s not perfect, of course, but it’s pretty damn good, Thank you. Looks like a good tool for a complete SDMB experience. > [@Riemann](#): > > You basically said you take pride in your self-absorbed junior modding, and when people find that jerkish you liken their reaction to torturing you? This is bizarre beyond words AFAIK, Milgram’s experiments were not about torturing, they were about people blindly following the directions of others—even to the point of (apparently) causing extreme duress to the experimental subject. Fundamentally his area of research concerned what could be termed “Toxic Conformity”. > [@Riemann](#): > > I initially (acronymically?) thought this Pitting was excessively confrontational. But I think the Pittee’s contributions have now removed any doubt that it was justified. Your posts in the QZ forum have been very helpful to me. Thank you. I have some huge decisions to make soon about how I might possibly get meaningful immune system protection from COVID even though I am on rituximab. I’m sure that conversation would benefit greatly with your participation. > [@digs](#): > > Yeah, I was totally on @I_Love_Me_Vol.I’s side, especially when he acknowledged his obnoxiousness. But then he started defending himself. Then he continued to defend himself. Then he got defensive about defending himself, and then he thought of more ways to defend himself… > > Dude, a mature human being would’ve posted ONCE (“Sorry, I hate undefined acronyms, but I’ll try to be less of a jerk about it.”). I appreciate your constructive criticism. There’s always something to be gained from well-intended evaluation. > [@puzzlegal](#): > > When i went back and read the pittee’s subsequent whiny comments i understood why he was pitted. That’s not helping anyone, that’s just hijacking a thread. While I don’t agree with your assessment, I can see why you would feel that way. I think you are a good moderator and thank you for your contributions to the Dope. > [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > If the acronym isn’t widely known, I sometimes followup with a post like, “Hey, in case anybody else is as clueless as I am, WOA stands for World Olympians Association.” Other times I’m forced to write something like > > World Ocean Atlas? > Web-Oriented Architecture? > Weak Organic Acid? > Warriors of Apocalypse? Those are excellent positive methods. I have tried this approach many times but folks aren’t always that quick at picking up what you’re laying down. > [@puzzlegal](#): > > it’s actually less typing to just say, “excuse me, what does FFA mean?” than it is to also complain to the poster about using acronyms. I urge you to try this. > [@CardboardBoxx](#): > > That’s like saying, “please take your foot off mine” after they tread on it when what you really want to happen is to get the person to start looking where they’re walking in the first place, **CardboardBoxx** – this is an succinct and elegant post. Thank you. And thanks for recognizing, in this and other posts, that this stuff is an issue on the Dope. Other people agree with you but don’t want to get into it. And naturally, after this enlightening thread I don’t feel like getting into it anymore either. I still believe the issues that I bitched about are ones that negatively affect the discussion on the SDMB. Ambiguity is never a good writing technique (other than in fiction?). I hope that folks here in this thread and Board-wide can separate their personal problems with me from their (everyone’s) desire to keep the level of discourse here as high as possible. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ilmvi-for-complaining-incessantly-about-acronyms/943142)._