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What are words for?

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There is a practical reason for the site to obscure certain words whether they realize it or not. Some filters, such as used in schools and libraries, will block pages that contain certain words.

 

I once had a student who had created a web-based presentation that she could not get to display properly, while everyone else's were fine. It had something to do with differences between the sexes. I finally got the idea to change the title to contain the word gender in place of sex, and all was fine after that.

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We admins deemed it. Think of it as a PG-13 instead of an R rating. "Shit" is perfectly okay, yet "f**k" and "c***" and similar R-rated words are bleeped. Yes, there were a lot of young people on this

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Why, in the 21st century, is there a non-religious message board that censors words like f**k, c***, or other "offensive" words? When we see those things with the asterisks, we ALL know what were read

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In Scotland, swearing is pretty much punctuation, so no worries here....

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Along similar lines, it is very probable that other organizations have passive filters that are looking for and flagging sites that contain certain words rather than actively blocking them.
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