Comment on [Meta] Removing definitions from Decronym?
talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve blocked the bot because I find it’s more annoying that useful (I’m not complaining - just giving feedback).
That said, IMHO from that list you should remove the entries that:
- are ambiguous (eg: HA has 2 entirely different meanings in your list)
- have become words on their own (eg. DNS, HTTP, etc…): nobody cares what these expand to (think, NASA) and also knowing what these expand to doesn’t help at all (if you tell me that HTTP means “hyper-text markup protocol” will I not have to go read wikipedia anyways to understand what it is?)
- are often not used according to your definition (eg. IP is more often used to refer to an IP address rather than to the protocol) - of course you may want to amend the definitions instead
Also, you should keep the acronym expansion (“RAID” => “Redundant Array of Independent Disks”) from any comment you may want to add (“for mass storage”) and - since you are at it - provide relevant links to wikipedia articles and/or other resources.
PS: since a lot of entries in the list are not even acronyms… maybe you should consider renaming the bot to something related to “abbreviations” or “glossary”?