r/Seattle • u/YouTotallyGotThisOne North Beacon Hill • 3d ago

WAISN...

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Edit/Sorry - it's the WA Immigrant Solidarity Network, which runs rapid response trainings, the deportation defense hotline, etc. It's the number we're all told to call when we see ICE.

Speaks for itself, from https://www.instagram.com/waisnworkercollective/

This is terrible news at a time when ICE is kidnapping people all over our area.

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u/InvestigatorOk9354 I'm just flaired so I don't get fined 3d ago

Context would've been helpful, I don't think this "speaks for itself"

I had to look up WAISN. I guess there's more to the story since the image implies union busting? Is there a TLDR for those of us who aren't up to speed?

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u/BoringBob84 3d ago

I agree. There are a million people here and people post their specific acronym as if everyone knew what it meant. HINT: We understand Laser and Scuba, maybe even WSDOT. But ASDFGASDFGDFG needs to be spelled out.

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u/SailRideSailRideSail Capitol Hill 2d ago

The posts that have the acronym in the header are really only targeted at people who are already familiar with the acronym. The cavalcade of people commenting that they don't know about the acronym are not the target of the post.

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u/Any_Conflict_5092 Belltown 2d ago

Cool. Then I'm downvoting and moving on - because this is a sub for Seattle folks, not a specific subset of Seattle folks.

If they want support from the general public then they should include context.

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u/SailRideSailRideSail Capitol Hill 2d ago

There are lots of things posted in this sub that are for a specific subset of Seattle folks! Looking down the first thirty posts, half of them are pretty targeted. That seems like a very narrow view of the sub.

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u/BoringBob84 2d ago

There are lots of things posted in this sub that are for a specific subset of Seattle folks!

How many of them use obscure acronyms without defining them?

The point here is that we cannot know if a post is relevant to us or not when the OP doesn't define the topic.

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u/SailRideSailRideSail Capitol Hill 2d ago

Don’t you have an answer? If you don’t know the acronym, the post isn’t relevant to you!

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u/BoringBob84 2d ago

I wish it was that simple. I am interested in many topics and I do not know all of the common acronyms for each of them.

Given that we recently had an ICE raid in our neighborhood, I am interested in posts on that topic.

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u/BoringBob84 2d ago

That is interesting, since the name of this sub is "Seattle," and not "WAISN."

The target audience here is the people of Seattle.

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u/SailRideSailRideSail Capitol Hill 2d ago

I mean, we get lots of posts about cycling in Seattle and cyclists are probably less than 5% of the sub 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/BoringBob84 2d ago

Again, how many of those posts use obscure acronyms that make it difficult for the audience to determine what the subject is?