# On the use of acronyms **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-use-of-acronyms/969310 **Category:** About This Message Board **Created:** [August 8, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-use-of-acronyms/969310 "2022-08-08T15:07:15Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### Author: ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann) #### Post date: [August 8, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-use-of-acronyms/969310/9 "2022-08-08T16:50:26Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Can we come to any sort of consensus regarding good form in the use of acronyms in posts? Some readers seem to get terribly upset when people use acronyms… 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. > [@I Pit ILMVI for Complaining Incessantly About Acronyms](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ilmvi-for-complaining-incessantly-about-acronyms/943142): > > ILMVI, please, for the love of DOYC, stop derailing threads to gripe about acronyms (or, for that matter, [legalese you don’t understand](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-an-american-with-a-40-year-old-dui-in-america-visit-canada/943054/28)). I have gotten so sick of you disrupting threads over [your pet peeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pwua-people-who-use-acronyms-and-terms-they-assume-people-will-know-spoiler-they-dont/839030/53) that I have had you on ignore for months now (honest: that’s the only reason, I can’t stand your moaning about acronyms). But apparently even that’s not enough. Because every time you drop a squat in a thread over someone’s use of an acronym (and so frequently in situations where its meaning… What prompted this rehashing of the issue? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-use-of-acronyms/969310)._