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Disemvoweling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Disemvoweling (also spelled disemvowelling) is a technique used by forum moderators to suppress trolling, vandalism, and other rude behavior in online discourse by removing all the vowels from the offending material. The disemvoweled text can still be read, or rather puzzled out; but it is clearly marked as deprecated, and is no longer susceptible to being automatically read by every passer-by who happens to glance at it. Finally, the disemvoweling convention can be used by the participants themselves, to preemptively dsmvwl pssgs whch my b smwht ffnsv—though admittedly, self-disemvoweling is most often done for humorous effect. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Disemvoweling   (484 words)

Abjad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For example, the previous sentence could be written Srprsngly, mny nn-Smtc lnggs sch `s `nglsh cn b wrttn wtht vwls `nd rd wth lttl dffclty. This fact can be used to semi-bowdlerise offensive language, a practice known as disemvoweling. Some usages of 1337speak drop vowels, especially for small words. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abjad   (560 words)

dotclue: trollbridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Teresa Nielsen Hayden of Making Light has a charming way of dealing with obnoxious commenters: she disemvowels them. This seems to be far more effective than simply trying to delete their comments or ban their IP addresses. To disemvowel a specific comment, simply edit it to include the string “[disemvowel]” (or just “[dis]”) as the first line. dotclue.org /archives/000094.html   (347 words)

Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: A Weblog: Dsmvwlng   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) For those not familiar with the concept, disemvowelling, pioneered by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, is the most effective troll-repellent yet invented. I'd disemvowel that bit too, explain that it's not his arguments, and suggest that he take it personally. Disemvowelling (I like the pun) is good precisely because it is both public and shaming. www.j-bradford-delong.net /movable_type/2004-2_archives/000554.html   (2761 words)

WordPress Wiki - Disemvoweler The following modification to the disemvowel function will replace the author's name with "troll" (just in case your trolls enter obscene names) and will remove his/her URL, if one was submitted. It also allows you to disemvowel a single comment (if disemvoweling all posts by an IP address is inappropriate) by editing the comment to include the string * * Replaces authors name with "troll" and removes the URL * Also allows a single comment to be disemvoweled by inserting the * string [troll] as the first line of the comment. wiki.wordpress.org /Disemvoweler   (256 words)

Electrolite: Bush vs. God: Comparsions between the 'hurt' caused by the display of the Confederate battle flag and the 'hurt' caused by the witnessing of the burning of the US flag could be made, but won't be. Like your disemvowellment policy: You're not a prude; you don't really care about 'forbidden' words from someone who uses them for emphasis, or just as a regular part of their speech. Rudeness is in the (perceived) intent to offend. nielsenhayden.com /electrolite/archives/002690.html   (7484 words)

Plugins/Disemvoweler « WordPress Codex This plugin removes vowels from comments posted from an IP in the disemvoweler fllist. The idea is to remove trolls through humiliation, and has worked quite well in some forums. It also allows you to disemvowel a single comment (if disemvoweling all posts by an IP address is inappropriate) by editing the comment to include the string [troll] as the first part of the comment. codex.wordpress.org /index.php?title=Plugins/Disemvoweler&redirect=no   (285 words)

Making Light: Autodisemvowelling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) As I understand it, the difference is that Brad Choate’s plugin disemvowels all comments coming from a specific IP address (or addresses), whereas TH’s new disemvoweller lets you discriminately zap individual comments. I think that part of the point of disemvowelling is to spare the other readers and commenters from having to see the disemvowelled material. Having explained "disemvoweled" to my mother and then became seriously concerned for her heart as she couldn't draw breath from laughing, I don't know if I can then explain "inconsonant" without first sending her for a physical. nielsenhayden.com /makinglight/archives/006871.html#006871   (4300 words)

Nucleus Support :: View topic - Disemvoweling Well I was thinking of implementing it as a per-comment option (ie if you find an offensive comment, you flag it for disemvoweling). I'm not sure per-IP is very useful nowadays since it's fairly trivial for most end-users to get a new IP, and unless you run a very tight ship with user accounts, blocking per user or per email won't be very useful either. I think it would be a good option to have that can be toggled by the blog admin (i.e. forum.nucleuscms.org /viewtopic.php?t=8806&sid=cde4d38e88318247a94ba6eac066439a   (405 words)

Huckleberries Online: Wild Card -- Tuesday Evening On the general subject of "getting control" of a comments section, DFO, the blog ">Making Light has an interesting technique called "disemvoweling" whereby the vowels in offending posts, or in offending parts of posts, are simply removed. Disemvoweling also makes a statement about where the line is and where it has been crossed. I generally feel people ought to be able to have their say, whatever it is. I have no idea whether disemvoweling would be useful to you. www.spokesmanreview.com /blogs/nhb/archive.asp?postID=2732   (4468 words)

Wos waas a Fremda?: Targeted Disemvoweling the MT Way I now have a solution to easily and non-destructively disemvowel individual comments. Through judicious use of Brad Choate's MTKeyValues plugin, and indiscrimate hacking of Bryant Durrell's shrpshr plugin, I now have a solution to easily and non-destructively disemvowel individual comments. Disemvowelling was invented by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, praised be her name. words.grendel.at /archives/2005/07/20/disemvowel.html   (166 words)

Absolute Write Water Cooler - Manuscript available on E-bay Diana, he was very rude in that thread, and the blog owner disemvoweled him. Until he had his mistakes pointed out by people who knew better than him, who should have been easy for him to recognise as knowing better than him, and whom he just ignored. Or began personal attacks on (I saw some of those posts before he was disemvowelled). absolutewrite.com /forums/showthread.php?t=7028   (824 words)

Obsidian Wings: The Pro-Toture Right.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Disemvowelling is Teresa Nielsen Hayden's invention, and it works a treat. Disemvowelling is editing the post and taking the vowels out. To interject a scientific point - it was once claimed by (I believe) an antievolutionist that early human mouths couldn't produce a range of vowels and hence couldn't have evolved language use, and in response a scientist wrote a disemvowelled or all-vowels-to-"e" rebuttal. obsidianwings.blogs.com /obsidian_wings/2005/01/the_prototure_r.html   (6968 words)

TheDieselStop.Com Forums: Will Ford know? *DELETED* It's one thing to have a domain name with Ford in it, it's quite another to use it in normal conversation; there's nothing illegal about that. The problem is, disemvoweling has traditionally been used on the 'net for swear words, and by extension, words that you can't bring yourself to say, because they're so hideous. So if you say "F*rd" or "F#%d" the implication is you don't like them, and around here most of us think they're kind of OK (with the occasional bit of lunacy... forums.thedieselstop.com /ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=872044&page=172&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1   (571 words)

Dealing with trolls (New Barker Blog) My eye was also caught by this post on it, which seemed to me to make some sensible points, with CSW as an example of the dangers of under-moderation. I am not sure though what the author means by "Disemvowelling". If someone you’ve disemvowelled comes back and behaves, forgive and forget their earlier gaffes. s7.invisionfree.com /New_Barker_Blog/ar/t118.htm   (1667 words)

Comments on 9777 | MetaTalk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Nielsen Hayden also advocates "disemvowelling" as a way of dealing with offensive comments. The idea is not only to prevent arguments from breaking out, but also to make the trolls look silly, in the hopes that they'll then stop trolling. I was looking for an old thread on her site that had a very informative, cogent discussion on the publishing industry's treatment of writers and every single post that didn't agree with her had been rendered illegible. metatalk.metafilter.com /mefi/9777   (3310 words)

Nucleus Support :: View topic - Request for new plugin events and options I was thinking about how to implement Disemvoweling and was looking through the Plugin API and realised that trying to do this would require core mods since Thus I would like to request for either or both of these to be added to the next version of Nucleus (or when convenient). I think I'll still go ahead and create the Disemvoweling plugin eventually, though I'd have to include a core mod to COMMENTS.PHP to subscribe to a EditCommentFormExtras event. forum.nucleuscms.org /viewtopic.php?t=8838&sid=2d80cc42a26dfb206f1a9ed439ae9a9f   (306 words)

Dohiyi Mir: Friday Critterblogging III: The Voyage Home? Dec 31, 2005 12:54:20 PM You could borrow Teresa Nielsen Hayden's disemvoweling Perl software. Dec 31, 2005 7:26:09 PM Hee, I think I got deleted as comment spam the first time - that will teach me to be too brief. Plug the text in, hit the button, ta da, disemvoweled whatever. www.dohiyimir.org /2005/12/friday_critterb_2.html   (2859 words)

Full Circle Online Interaction Blog: Dealing With the Things That Bother Us Online: Facilitation of Problems Part 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) I posted this to the online facilitation list and immediately got a very negative reaction around disemvoweling in the context of an online discussion group. I suggested that blog comments can and often are quite different than a more communally perceived online discussion board or list. I can see how making the return comments on the commentator's blog ensures they know you have responded, but as you have said, it makes it more difficult to track the comments you've made. www.fullcirc.com /weblog/2005/01/dealing-with-things-that-bother-us.htm   (828 words)

Kathryn Cramer: A Response to My Behaviorism & Autism Post Perhaps in the current instance, I should have used Teresa Nielsen Hayden's disemvowelling technique rather than specifically asking people to behave and refusing to publish comments that in my personal and subjective opinion qualified as trolling, but I don't think the disemvowelling technique would have made this bunch any less angry. In my personal opinion, what I should have done was to remain silent on the subject of unpublished comments and ignored any discussion on other blogs. TNH's blog is great, and her disemvoweling works for me whenever I visit the comments. www.kathryncramer.com /kathryn_cramer/2005/01/a_response_to_m.html   (7076 words)

Disemvoweling and communities However, this time I'll make an exception, because I've found a great community via one of Chuqui's postings, one that actually deserves the name. In particular, there was a posting about communities and policing, which rings very true to me. I especially like the practice of disemvoweling (explained in the comments to that article). As long as the moderator is aware that disemvoweling is simply another form of censorship. www.zathras.de /angelweb/x2005-02-04c.htm   (131 words)

[No title] Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. Disemvoweling My friend Will has introduced me to... Disemvoweling (also spelled disemvowelling) is a technique used by forum moderators to suppress trolling, vandalism, and other rude behavior in online discourse by removing all the vowels from the linguisticlife.blogspot.com /atom.xml   (485 words)

Pharyngula::What about Bob? I could make banning an option via a poll, but I'm afraid that would just lead to the tyranny of the majority. There are lighter punishments, like the disemvoweling TNH practices on I could flag trouble-makers with a warning icon, in the same way I've added gravatars. pharyngula.org /index/weblog/comments/what_about_bob   (3656 words)

Uncommon Descent » “Censorship” at Uncommon Descent Quite a few people are banned there including myself and University of Vermont Professor Emeritus of Biology John Davison. Before they outright banned John and I they were arbitrarily erasing and/or disemvoweling our comments without warning, rhyme, or reason. At least Dembski will tell you why you’re banned and won’t childishly mangle your comments into gibberish by removing all the vowels. www.uncommondescent.com /index.php/archives/306   (2248 words)

Electrolite: Who we are. I must admit, the disemvoweling process is particularly hard on my reading comprehension. I'm thinking it's time for some disemvoweling around here. I don't care what your attitude to the statement is Patrick, some people really do have just too much time on their hands. nielsenhayden.com /electrolite/archives/002729.html   (11940 words)

All The World's A Stage: Panel: Blogs as Literature, Xposted He controls the dialog on his journal - and you can go there and see that. His favorite blog is Making Light - Theresa's Blog, and he loves her disemvoweling - what she does to the comments of trolls - takes the vowels out. In the US getting stuff out of the cache: www.skyseastone.net /stage/oldplays/003503.html   (472 words)

badgerbag: messy, surly, full of books: hmmm. spread this. a rumor Posted by: whump at Sep 8, 2005 10:57:41 AM well uh. Posted by: minnie at Sep 8, 2005 10:58:24 AM Oh, I mean the disemVoweling plug in. No actual trolls were harmed in this comment. badgerbag.typepad.com /badgerbag/2005/09/hmmm_spread_thi.html   (2674 words)

bastish.net Have you seen any other ways of dealing with spam? I've seen the "disemvoweling method" but I don't want to leave that stuff on the site, vowels or not. Posted by: Marc at October 14, 2003 06:07 PM Nice code fix. www.bastish.net /rememberwhen/002474.html   (1001 words)

Shot In The Dark: Swiftee Throws Down If his comments appeared in "Shot In The Dark", would they pass the Mitch Berg sniff test or would he be banned? As for personal conversations, one of your posters was emailing me directions of how to bypass the disemvoweling trick. I'm guessing one of the reasons you got as pissed as you did is you felt humiliated or maybe betrayed. www.shotinthedark.info /archives/006235.html   (2629 words)

PyroManiac: Turns out I missed some yesterday, so here's more... Dan Burrell gives me a thumbs up on Tuesday's post. Daniel J. Phillips does some careful thinking about the disemvoweling of God's names and adds several good arguments I hadn't even thought of for why this practice makes no sense. He calls the practice "ostentatious," and after reading all the comments here, as well as Dani-l's post, I agree with him completely. phillipjohnson.blogspot.com /2005/09/turns-out-i-missed-some-yesterday-so.html   (2697 words)

Hey! Do you see Patty Wetterling's ad on the homepage??!! As for the people he banned, I'm one of them. He didn't like me getting all technical with facts and stuff so he banned me. The funniest part was that one of his regulars, a guy who posts with pretty conservative, right wing stuff emailed me with tips on how to get around the ban and how to by-pass Mitch's little disemvoweling trick... It wasn't until he posted my real name and location AND I received a few harassing calls from his readers that I quit posting there. www.democraticunderground.com /discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=160x14651   (1634 words)

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