I wasn’t aware that there was a lack of consensus, bar one poster. Why be evasive about the fact that it has been ONE poster causing 100% of the problem with this issue? He was pitted, the pitting was initially poorly received and everyone agreed that we could sometimes do better with acronyms, applying common sense principles similar to what you have outlined here. The pittee then joined the thread and alienated everyone by insisting on his right to junior mod when (in his opinion) an acronym should have been defined, rejected the idea that SDMB should ever engage in more technical discussions where some prior knowledge is assumed, declared essentially that he would continue to be a disruptive jerk about it and that he was being persecuted.
What prompted this rehashing of the issue?