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r/sysadmin • … • u/OrangeredStilton

Regarding acronyms, would the acronym-busting bot from the spaceflight subs be welcome here?

So there's been a bit of noise recently about all the acronyms that float around the sysadmin space, like "what even is SCCM" and "why do I need a TPS report on how many TPS the site can handle"...

This same thought cropped up on /r/Space a few years ago, so I wrote Decronym: an acronym expanding bot that will listen out for acronyms in a thread, and post its own comment explaining them; here's an example of one of the comments it's left over there.

> Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread: > > |Fewer Letters|More Letters| > |-------|---------|---| > |[DARPA](/r/Space/comments/al9aoy/stub/efctgnq "Last usage")|(Defense) Advanced Research Projects Agency, DoD| > |[DoD](/r/Space/comments/al9aoy/stub/efcmbov "Last usage")|US Department of Defense| > |[ESA](/r/Space/comments/al9aoy/stub/efcktwc "Last usage")|European Space Agency| > |[JSC](/r/Space/comments/al9aoy/stub/efcr7p8 "Last usage")|Johnson Space Center, Houston| > |[MSFC](/r/Space/comments/al9aoy/stub/efcr7p8 "Last usage")|Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama| > |[NOAA](/r/Space/comments/al9aoy/stub/efcn6pv "Last usage")|National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, responsible for US ~~generation~~ monitoring of the climate| > |[SLS](/r/Space/comments/al9aoy/stub/efcmpo0 "Last usage")|Space Launch System heavy-lift| > | |Selective Laser Sintering, contrast DMLS| > |[ULA](/r/Space/comments/al9aoy/stub/efcftzh "Last usage")|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)| > > |Jargon|Definition| > |-------|---------|---| > |[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/al9aoy/stub/efc9v96 "Last usage")|SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation|

Decronym tries its level best to not spam a thread: it only ever posts one comment and keeps that comment up to date, and it'll only post when thresholds have been reached for thread age and length. If that sounds like a good idea to have in /r/sysadmin, do post some acronyms in this thread and I'll start putting a database together before petitioning the mods.

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