Some suggestions I believe would be conducive to better discourse

[otoselkie]

Let's all stop using the word "hate" when talking about Prop 8/gay people/anti-gay people/whatever. Yes, it can be accurate, but in current discourse it's massively overused by both sides. Like "change" and "experience" in the recent Presidential campaign it's become an automatic buzzword used in lieu of a real argument. It's ceasing to mean

Comments

[valmora]

I only use Xtian as shorthand when I'm writing things out, usually notes for history classes... where do you see it?

[otoselkie]

Blogs/other Internet discourse, both in top-level posts and comments.

[usagi_alchemist]

I always have to look twice as "xtian" to figure out what it is. It looks like Chinese with a typo, or something.