There are two or three separate questions here ... 1) Does a blog author have the prerogative to set style and tone as he likes it - obviously yes. 2) Am I *missing* something about chatspeak that several blogs seem hip to. 3) Various peripheral ideas brought out here.
As far as I can tell, *most* of the major blogs, including USSM, Prospect Insider, ProBallNW etc seem to follow LL's lead in frowning on chatspeak. True, it happened to be an LL thread I was skimming, when I saw a guy unnecessarily gruff about "LOL" -- after all, WTF is 100% kosher at LL -- and it got me to wondering (in my 5 a.m. bender warped-mind mode) about cyber-Seattle (and cyber-baseball) in general.
That Jeff Sullivan and his 30,000 readers might (or might not) prefer to avoid the "slippery slope" is of course not an issue for me. LL has the right to its preferences on its own blog.
My own question pertains to whether I'd missed something about why Chatspeak offends -- after all, spam doesn't offend me much either. The hostile reactions to spam (links to one's home board in a chat thread) are quite opaque to me also.
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The thread so far has been interesting...
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