[krapp]

>This HN thing of casually using acronyms without defining them is baffling to me

You have a whole internet at your fingertips with which to look up terms you don't understand without diluting the thread, but if you need at all to do that you should consider that you might not have anything relevant to add to the conversation to begin with. Hacker News is supposed to be a forum of educated professionals and domain experts, we shouldn't have to dumb things down here.

[cpburns2009]

The problem with looking up acronyms is it's usually from a domain you're unfamiliar with, so you don't know which definition to pick from.

[watwut]

One must be really deep in some fertility obsessed subculture to think that TFR acronym should be instantly recognized when placed in tech forum discussion about minority language.

Otherwise said, using full expression is not "diluting the thread".

[krapp]

Asking pointless questions that can be answered with a simple Google search and complaining about other people's use of language do dilute the thread.

It's explicitly in the guidelines that we don't complain about voting because it "makes for boring reading." Complaining about acronyms has the same effect.

[watwut]

Having to google obscure acronyms and having to guess which interpretation author meant makes for super boring reading.

It is way better when you see a question and answer just below. And bonus point, question and answer teaches others to not use all acronyms they learned in all the random subcultures.

[krapp]

>Having to google obscure acronyms and having to guess which interpretation author meant makes for super boring reading.

It doesn't, because we don't have to read that.

Also the interpretation can be gleaned from context, as @williamdclt did above. It's unlikely that, reading the thread, the "TFR" being discussed is "temporary flight restriction."

[LoganDark]

seeing the definition for TFR in the thread is not boring reading because, as you say, it's something I would be expected to look up anyway.