Ruin Explorer
Legend
I think that if you were attempting to communicate, you got a critical fail, because you decided snark (including referring to me in the third person and telling me how I spend my time! Come on...) and an appeal to an un-sourced authority (this alleged "guide" to acronym use) were the correct ways to approach the problem (rather than saying "I have no idea what you are talking about..."), which we can clearly see, they were not. Your post was absolutely, to me, unreasonable. There was no politeness, no directness, no request, just a sneering indirect(!) demand that if I have time to post "every day on multiple messageboards" (which isn't even true, note - I generally only post here, and not every day!), then I have to follow some rules I've never heard of, which you've not sourced, and which make no sense to me in the context.
This is internet, Mistwell. If this was real life, or a printed book, I actually might agree with the criticism (though said I stopped explaining what DotA's words meant because I found it confused people, IRL, rather than just describing the game, so not here).
But it's the internet. If you want to know what something is, you look it up. That's what I do. It takes seconds. So instead of you taking a few seconds to look it up, you've spent minutes of both of our time. Which in my experience is usually a form of attention-seeking (not always, but very often).
So yes, I do think it's unreasonable to follow that un-sourced guide's demands on the internet. If had introduced the concept of DotA to a conversation, I would have explained it - but I still likely wouldn't have broken down the acronym, because this particular acronym is meaningless. I literally don't even remember exactly what MOBA acronyms to myself! Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, I think. Obviously that's meaningless, though, because it could describe 99% of versus multiplayer games. It's just the word/acronym that describes this object!
With a meaningful acronym, it might be another matter - MMORPG, for example, - but I think it's fair to assume that as many people here know what MMORPG means as know what UA, say means (more, even, perhaps). In fact, MMORPG is less vague than UA, as there are a number of UAs.
Still, I don't think it's unreasonable of me to respond to a poster who uses acronyms with the same acronyms, and to expect people who want to join in intelligently to look those things up. You could not have contributed to that conversation just from me saying "Defence of the Ancients". It would not have helped you. Nor would "Multiplayer Online Battle Arena". I had to explain the concept, and I did (or you could have looked it up). I will add again that I've had to look up tons of acronyms here, that no-one explaining (ACKS, for example, I came to learn means Adventurer, Conquerer, King System). Finally, I note that you've still not explained why you took me to task, and not the other poster, but I will leave that where it is. I don't think there's any more to be said.
