Disemvowelling, a.k.a. X-Ry Spcs

(Just to make it clear before we start, This Is From Glenn. I’d use the blink tag to say so, but that’s just so Mosaic 1.0.)

Having come to the conclusion that no one here is paying any attention to a certain individual’s commentary because of his abusive and abrasive style, and noting that it’s a real pain scrolling past all of his frequent posts, they’d best be shortened a bit.

So I yanked all the vowels. This makes his comments significantly shorter while making them only slightly less incomprehensible.

Does this mean it’s now forbidden to have arguments in PeterDavid.net’s comment threads? Not at all. Arguments are fine, including vigorous ones, as long as you maintain a civil tone. Does that mean you can get away with saying anything here, as long as you say it well enough? Pretty much.

If a case can be made by X-Ray that his posts should be restored, I’ll consider it. In the meantime, he can post anything except the letters a, e, i, o, and u.

Special thanks to Teresa Nielsen Hayden for the inspiration.

Commenting problems

There seems to be something preventing some commenting, including mine. If you’re having similar problems, send mail here and we’ll try to figure it out.

UPDATE: seems to be fixed now, so I’m closing the thread.