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

[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 :)