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Think of the fun you could have with ROT-13 complementary colors! and disemvowelment.
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If you're concerned that disemvowelment may give the appearance that comments which were merely dissenting with the opinion of the host, rather than rude, were being altered you're quite free to reconstruct the comments and see for yourself.
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If mynym calls ‘Darwinists’ ‘Nazis’ one more time, I’d vote for his disemvowelment.
Journalists are beginning to get it - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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For some posts, it might be useful to explicitly create a safe space for key assumptions - e.g., “on this post, you can’t ask people to remain abstinent if they don’t want babies, or argue about the personhood of fetuses in the first trimester” - enforced by disemvowelment or having the offending remarks excised from a post and replaced with stern editorial remarks.
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