Terrible posting etiquette

Agreed!

Though it’s very widespread, sharing a link without a word of comment is as obnoxious as those people who send you emails with no text or subject and only an attachment.

I feel less alone knowing that someone else also hates this practice.

IDK if it’s the “best” way, but generally I just let ping run for a while and check the statistics at the end

Your worth is not determined by abstract internet points.

Sometimes people won’t get your message/point and downvote your contributions. The reason might be you not doing a good job at communicating (in my experience, it’s usually is that) or it might be them misunderstanding or you might not fit the community you are contributing to (eg. if your political view is not generally accepted in a community).

Don’t worry about one of your posts/comments occasionally getting downvoted.

If your contributions get downvoted consinsently (which seems to be the case from what you write? I don’t really are enough to go look at your account’s history), consider if continuing as you are is of any benefit to you and/or the community and if it’s still worth your time.

In case, try seeing if it’s a style/tone/manners/respect thing that you maybe want to improve on or if it’s just not worth it and it’s better to go somewhere else or stop entirely.

There is no law saying we must fit every community (I left communities and even an entire Lemmy instance for that).

Also, this discussion is entirely OT since it has nothing to do with programming, and I am reporting it as such. If it’s downvoted or ends up being taken down (I hope so), it’s not because of some conspiracy against you.

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”?