Okay but you don’t have to turn everything into an acronym like Redditors and business people do, then pretend you’re smarter than everyone for knowing it.
Okay but you don’t have to turn everything into an acronym like Redditors and business people do
I have never uttered the term “Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol” outside of a basic networking lecture and I never will. Alphabet soup can be taken too far, but there are good and real reasons why some of this stuff exists.
Actually, having been on reddit for over a decade before I left, I’d agree that there is a superiority complex present on reddit when someone asks for clarification on an acronym.
Without fail, if someone used acronyms that might be considered by some to be “common knowledge”, and another user asks what that means, they’ll get down votes and sometimes even a “are you joking? Everyone knows it means blah blah blah” or similar comment.
I once saw a person get over 50 down votes for asking “what does ETA mean?” when the OP meant “edited to add”. I had never seen anyone use it to mean something other than “estimated time of arrival” and was mildly confused by the “ETA” at the top of the comment. Not one single person explained what it meant. Just down votes. I had no idea either at the time, and didn’t care enough to do some light searching.
I’d say the business ones are dependent on where you work. I’ve never worked in a corporate setting where I’d imagine they’re more common, so I can’t really comment on that part.
I’m not talking about science, who knows what those wizards are doing, unless you’re talking about computer science which I am.
the problem is when you abbreviate something or use three letters or a number to represent something it gets forgotten over time, the protocol changes but more importantly it is impossible to remember what all those 3 symbol representations actually mean.
In the old days we had a good reason for this, literally only so many letters could fit on a line, but now if you’re doing it you’re just a dick.
Okay but you don’t have to turn everything into an acronym like Redditors and business people do, then pretend you’re smarter than everyone for knowing it.
The worst are corporate internal acronyms.
I have never uttered the term “Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol” outside of a basic networking lecture and I never will. Alphabet soup can be taken too far, but there are good and real reasons why some of this stuff exists.
It’s in our deoxyribonucleic acid to make alphabet soup.
People use acronyms because referring to things by their verbose names is slow, and those names get used day-in day-out.
There’s not a weird superiority complex; that’s you inferring things that aren’t there IMO.
Actually, having been on reddit for over a decade before I left, I’d agree that there is a superiority complex present on reddit when someone asks for clarification on an acronym.
Without fail, if someone used acronyms that might be considered by some to be “common knowledge”, and another user asks what that means, they’ll get down votes and sometimes even a “are you joking? Everyone knows it means blah blah blah” or similar comment.
I once saw a person get over 50 down votes for asking “what does ETA mean?” when the OP meant “edited to add”. I had never seen anyone use it to mean something other than “estimated time of arrival” and was mildly confused by the “ETA” at the top of the comment. Not one single person explained what it meant. Just down votes. I had no idea either at the time, and didn’t care enough to do some light searching.
I’d say the business ones are dependent on where you work. I’ve never worked in a corporate setting where I’d imagine they’re more common, so I can’t really comment on that part.
This.
I’m not talking about science, who knows what those wizards are doing, unless you’re talking about computer science which I am.
the problem is when you abbreviate something or use three letters or a number to represent something it gets forgotten over time, the protocol changes but more importantly it is impossible to remember what all those 3 symbol representations actually mean.
In the old days we had a good reason for this, literally only so many letters could fit on a line, but now if you’re doing it you’re just a dick.