Disemvowelling Button for abusive comments

[lauredhel]

Title:
Disemvowelling Button for abusive comments

Area:
Comments

Summary:
A button on comments one's own journal and on communities you moderate that allow one to remove all vowels from the comment (with a note that it's been done).

Description:
Common on other blogs is the technique of disemvowelling abusive comments. This retains the public record and maintains transparency, while frustrating the commenter's attempt to expose others to their abuse or hate speech, and sending the message that their actions are unwelcome and won't be tolerated.

It would be great to be able to disemvowel abusive comments on one's own journal, or on a community while wearing a mod hat.

Poll #2496 Disemvowelling Button for abusive comments

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Should be implemented as-is.
35 (36.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
10 (10.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
38 (40.0%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (12.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[schnurble]

How about using ROT13?
This can be restored fully, but you'll have to use a tool, I doubt that most people can read ROT13 directly...
And people who don't know about ROT13 might wonder what the strange text means.

OT, but at first I read Disembowelling Button and it still makes me giggle :o)

[kate_nepveu]

I also much prefer ROT13 for this: I reply to the comment with the offending text under ROT13 and then screen the original.

If there was an auto ROT13 button it could also include an auto-un-ROT13 link!

[lauredhel]

Rot-13 has similar issues to auto-collapse: may be useful for some forms of concealment, but isn't quite functionally equivalent to disemvowelling.

It's also somewhat harder to explain to newbies.

[kate_nepveu]

What benefit to disemvowelling do you see that ROT13 doesn't have?

Because I think ROT13 has the same function--can't automatically read it--and the benefit of being fully and automatically reconstructable, which ROT13 isn't.

[lauredhel]

explained here :)

[kyrielle]

I like this. I like it even better if there's an AJAX-y solution so that I-the-reader who doesn't own the journal can view the un-ROT13 without having to copy it into a ROT13 tool and rotate it....

[kate_nepveu]

Right, that's what I meant by "link." I have a Javascript bookmarklet that will do it, I'm sure you can do the same thing in the page, even if it requires the person to highlight the text first.