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

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 95

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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

[zvi]

I hate the idea of this a lot, but I'd rather a rot13 solution than a disemvoweling solution, if I am over-ruled. I think disemvoweling has too many issues both with accessibility and non-English languages, where the vowel distribution makes it useless.

Question, for comments in non-roman alphabets, what does rot13'ing do?

[aedifica]

Question, for comments in non-roman alphabets, what does rot13'ing do?

Apparently nothing at all. I pasted some Greek text into http://www.rot13.com/ and it didn't change when I hit the button. (True, one could write a script that would know what to do with non-roman alphabets, all I'm really saying is that that particular site hasn't.)

[corvus]

I think disemvoweling has too many issues both with accessibility and non-English languages, where the vowel distribution makes it useless.

An example of such language: Finnish. It is usually difficult or impossible to understand disemvowelled Finnish sentences.

A disemvowelled word kt can be at least kaato, kaita, kate, kato, katu, keto, kiito, kita, kota, koti, koto, kuitu, kuti, kutu, kuutio, kaataa, kaatua, katua, kiitää, kitua, kutoa, äkätä, kuuta, aukeat, oikeat...

Most of the example words are not inflected. Often inflection (or further inflection) creates more kt words.