this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
2089 points (98.5% liked)

Lemmy.World Announcements

29098 readers
30 users here now

This Community is intended for posts about the Lemmy.world server by the admins.

Follow us for server news 🐘

Outages 🔥

https://status.lemmy.world/

For support with issues at Lemmy.world, go to the Lemmy.world Support community.

Support e-mail

Any support requests are best sent to info@lemmy.world e-mail.

Report contact

Donations 💗

If you would like to make a donation to support the cost of running this platform, please do so at the following donation URLs.

If you can, please use / switch to Ko-Fi, it has the lowest fees for us

Ko-Fi (Donate)

Bunq (Donate)

Open Collective backers and sponsors

Patreon

Join the team

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
ruud@lemmy.world
lwadmin@lemmy.world
lwCET@lemmy.world
jelloeater85@lemmy.world
Serinus@lemmy.world
lw_mod_notification@lemmy.world
MrKaplan@lemmy.world
2089
Here it comes - Reddit admins taking over subs (lemmy.intai.tech)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
500 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

lemmy.world IS NOT a general discussion area. find another community.

my bad....

-manitcor

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] halfpipe@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This wouldn’t be a proper Reddit replacement if an anonymous user didn’t take the time out of his day to type that “free rein” was the correct spelling here

[–] DarraignTheSane@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Well damnit you are right - in both that it's not proper reddit replacement without grammar nazis, and that "free rein" is the usual term. It could be argued that reign also works in this case because some moderators seemed to be under the impression that they were kings within their subreddit kingdoms.

[–] minimar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is?? I've been typing it wrong my whole life.

I'm still writing 'reign' though.

[–] starrox@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think "reign" is like "rule". - A king reigns over his people.

"Rein" is the thing that horse cart drivers use to control the horses. So the rope that goes from horses mouth to drivers hand. You can either "rein (in) the horses" for them to do something, or you can let them "free rein", meaning they can run as they please.

[–] minimar@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I always imagined it like a king being able to freely reign over his people - so that he can freely do whatever he wants in terms of governing them.

[–] starrox@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well that interpretation certainly works here as well :)

[–] BrewJajaja@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then free reign could also be an eggcorn.

[–] starrox@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Til what an eggcorn is. Yeah, absolutely.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same, but I'm happy to know the correct term.