Moderators changing user's choice of acronyms. What constitutes suitable language? *spawn

The preferred terms are XBSX or XSX, just like it's MS instead of M$. Just trying to keep things on a higher level.

 

Forbidden juvenility dystopia.

 

Seriously? You're lamenting the fact that B3D, a technical forum dedicated primarily to intellectual, technical discussion, won't allow an abbreviation to SeX? Why do you so want to abbreviate the XBox Series X to SeX? Does it help communication, or do you find it funny? The latter is juvenile.

If you want to use childish terms and post cat memes everywhere, there's a million other places on the internet for that. If you want to talk sensibly, here's the best place, in part because we keep a higher general standard. It has nothing to do with taking offense and everything to do with appropriate behaviour for this particular community.

 

It's ironic that I had an XBone before we even started talking about SeX
*runs away*

 

It's not puritansim. If someone were to use Wee instead of Wii, or Piss instead of PS5, or any other silly, contrived contraction (after a grace period of allowing ridicule if a company opens themselves up to it ), it'd be changed.

It also screws completely with web searches. Use XBSX. You might find it very challenging at first to parse a whole extra letter, but with practice, you'll get used to it. Heck, XBSX is easier to type than SeX because you can leave the shift down. Considering your brain is capable of reading rows of text about angry people having rows despite 'rows' and 'rows' being identical, you should have faith that you'll come to be fluent with the new acronym and able to make instant sense of it eventually.

XBox One abbreviates to XBOne or XBone. If some people want to read that as 'X bone' and giggle, that's on them. Anyone using XBoner or some other contrived contraction would find it similarly replaced with a more appropriate contraction. And of course, the most efficient contraction used by people not trying to be funny is XBO, which is the easiest to type.

OXB
360
XBO
XBX
XBSX

It's really not hard.

 

I can't see any legitimate reason to give anyone exemption. Effective communication requires everyone use the same standards, including stupid ones like English spellings. I honestly can't fathom your complaint with XBSX. The letters XB and S are on the left. One can hold the right-shift down and type XBSX with a roll of the left hand. Are you not using a QWERTY keyboard?

We wouldn't tolerate someone using anything other than BRD to talk about BluRay Discs. We wouldn't have anything other than AMD to talk about Advanced Micro Devices. We'd expect PS3 to talk about the PlayStation 3. If we're not consistent, we don't know what people are talking about.

Motion denied. Sorry. It's a rare, heavier-than-usually-handed moderation policy in effective and we have to stick by it.

edit: Feel free to not bother with a contraction and just write SeriesX if you prefer. Although that isn't good for searching and it'd be better if the terms were universal. I guess eventually we'll be able to contract MS's console names by a count of how many Xs they have, so 4X for the "XBoX series X pro X" and 6X for the "XboX series XL pro-X MMXXV edition"

 

Not that the "i" thing isn't silly, but for the level of shitness to even be comparable, apple should have followed the iPhone 3G with iPhone ONE, then iPhone ONE i, to then iPhone Series i.

 

Have you confirmed those are all talking about BluRay Discs? That they aren't things like 'BR drive'? Or, as I see looking at the search results, that those 885 results aren't referring to something else completely such as HTML breaks.

They're not contractions! We're not going to stop people typing in the full (or partial) name of a product. But if someone were to start using BlRy, we'd likely tell them not to because it's inconsistent. AFAICS you're the only one using SeX to talk about Series X. If you wrote XBox Series X, there'd be no complaint. XB series X - no complaint. Series X, no complaint. XBSX; no complaint. SeX - No. XBoxsxsxsx - no. xbxxxxx - no. We want terms and acronyms that are consistent and appropriate. Pretty much always, these naturally occur and no direct moderation is needed. I don't honestly recall any other time any mod has felt the need to step in.

Note, if the next console MS produce is the Xbox Super Elite X, yes, XBSEX and SEX will be totally appropriate.

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I'm amazed you're actually dedicating any time and emotion to wanting to use the word "sex" as an acronym for a console here. It was amusing for about 5 minutes.

 

I see what you did there.

 

If that's the argument, why not just edit a post and leave a mod remark with what was edited and why? Stealth edits by mods are a slippery slope IMO.

 

Personaly, I think editing out the sex is by far more juvenile than typing it in the first place.

 

hum... Cause and correlation aren't the same thing though.

 

I'll take Tottentranz' posting style for $200, Alex