You make a worthwhile point—it’s the communication style that’s dragging knuckles, not necessarily the person who posts that way.
There is a place for leetspeak, unknown words, phrases and made-up initialisms, (e.g.: “He ISO like, GJEDBEOTKT, ya know?”) but I don’t believe that place is here. You may disagree. Cecil may disagree.
And as I said, if the goal is to make the SDMB more popular it might be effective to lower the level of discourse here. Might be good to have animated GIFs and videos for signatures, too.
Imagine “Regards, Shodan” but with huge bare-breasted harpys with Cookie Monster faces etching the the words in snow with flaming piss.
Imagine the most common response in a Great Debates thread being: “No, YOU!!1!”
We can do that if that’s truly what people want. If TPTB clearly communicated that that is the new direction the Dope is going I wouldn’t complain cuz it’s their bag, baby. But neither would I post here anymore. Would you?