[governance] UK - DVLA: Seven staff suspended for posting "inappropriate" Facebook comments

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

Happy New Year to you.

> "Come on, use the opportunity to educate yourself by research the acronyms!"


That is close to the advice I would give them.    Though It might look more like:

"Come on, participate, even though you will occasionally have to research an acronym or something else you never heard of before."

To be dependent on others for acronym help is to be helpless in this environment.  It is a mental barrier people need to get over.  And the helpless messages about "whatever someone could mean by XYZ", really don't help as they enable acronym dependency, a sever Ig debilitative syndrome.  Additionally the messages would produce answers that are too late for the reader, no matter how quickly the response is sent in.

Sure, I prefer the writing of people who do spell a name on first use.  But even when I have done so, I have had people yell at me for not explaining it again on a later page.

And at what point do you start to beleive the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Aumbers is more confusing than ICANN?

Finally sometimes an acronym is really just the name of something and even people who live within that organization don't know or care about the spelling out.  Sometime it really does not matter what it means and that bit of knowledge-thirst can be left in abeyance.  I ask myself 'do I really need to know what every acronym means'?

avri
1/3

support wikipedia, someone has to provide the first clue to all answers.


On 2 Jan 2013, at 20:28, Norbert Klein wrote:

> Happy New Year, Avri, and everybody else.
> 
> I assure you that I have no problem Googling acronyms a lot, and I use the translation facility sometimes (though not often on this list - and the translation facility often fails on acronyms).
> 
> BUT:
> 
> I am also trying to extend the number of the few people involved in the discussion of Internet Governance by trying to share issues with some others - by having them read and consider what kinds of issues we are facing and dealing with.
> 
> It is not much a problem for myself - but I am not sure if I am the only one who often faces negative reactions "Too difficult to catch..." and the acronym factor is often mentioned.
> 
> I did not dare to tell them: "Come on, use the opportunity to educate yourself by research the acronyms!"
> 
> 
> Norbert Klein
> Cambodia
> 
> =
> 
> On 1/3/2013 5:18 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
>> I would assume anyone can do a search on acronyms.
>> Even more helpful when the text contains it already.
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Thank your lucky stars people aren't using document numbers as the reference.
>> 
>> When someone sends a acronym i don't know, i use the net to open it up - and often even learn something.  Of course when the text already contains it, so much the better.
>> 
>> When someone sends something to the list in a language i don't understand i use:
>> 
>>> Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t
>> 
>> Which is tacked on to every list message.
>> 
>> just saying
>> 
>> avri
>> 1/3
>> 
>> On 2 Jan 2013, at 08:23, Norbert Klein wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks, Rony,
>>> 
>>> for working towards preventing this list from being only for a small in-group (of English speakers).
>>> 
>>> Norbert Klein
>>> Cambodia
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 1/2/2013 7:45 PM, Koven Ronald wrote:
>>>> What, pray, is DVLA ?
>>>> 
>>>> (Acronymitis seems endemic on this list.)
>>>> 
>>>> Bests, Rony Koven
>> 
> 
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