When small cabals of people make decisions that affect everyone without consulting them first why are you surprised at a backlash And thanks for pointing out my spelling mistake in such a snarky manner that is an excellent way to depersonalize a conversation in a less emotional way Btw I can think of several options that would be preferable to defacating date autoformatting and I d be happy to mention them if I thought it had a chance of reversing the current mess And if they really don t want people to use autoformatting for all the litany of reasons you gave wouldn t it be simpler to just turn it off completely As long as it works I m going to keep using it and keep formatting for it as that s what I prefer