I understand the reasoning re: Google search rank and so forth, but I still question the PR implications of maintaining such a strong local taboo around that word that it can only be invoked through the veil of ROT13. Strikes me as a far more eccentric practice than any amount of talk about the psychology of charismatic leadership, and I’d expect casual readers to pick up on that and update their views of its significance accordingly.
Conceivably this might be considered an acceptable tradeoff if there’s a low enough ratio of those readers to people that might be turned off by seeing the word-that-must-not-be-named in autocomplete or search results, but that’s about the only reasonable case I can think of. It seems unlikely.
but I still must say I question the PR implications of maintaining a local taboo around that word of such strength that it can only be referred to through the veil of ROT13.
The most phyggish aspect of this site is the use of the word “phyg”.
I understand the reasoning re: Google search rank and so forth, but I still question the PR implications of maintaining such a strong local taboo around that word that it can only be invoked through the veil of ROT13. Strikes me as a far more eccentric practice than any amount of talk about the psychology of charismatic leadership, and I’d expect casual readers to pick up on that and update their views of its significance accordingly.
Conceivably this might be considered an acceptable tradeoff if there’s a low enough ratio of those readers to people that might be turned off by seeing the word-that-must-not-be-named in autocomplete or search results, but that’s about the only reasonable case I can think of. It seems unlikely.
The most phyggish aspect of this site is the use of the word “phyg”.
If the word “phyg” is such a problem, why don’t we … … ROT13 it?