Profanity filter what the ****?

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Nov 6, 2000
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I don't remember there being one... maybe I never tried to put ****** or ****** in a post before. It always been like this, or is there an option I can turn on/off?
 

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Lifer
Apr 29, 2003
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It has not always been like that, it used to give you an annoying error when you had a blocked word in your post, and it wasn't always obvious what the word was (i.e. stab)

No, it is not an option you can turn off.

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notfred

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I *hate* that it substitutes every word with 5 asterisks. It should match the number of asterisks to the number of letters in the original word. It'd make it easier to guess what people meant to say in the first place.
 

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Lifer
Apr 29, 2003
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Originally posted by: notfred
I *hate* that it substitutes every word with 5 asterisks. It should match the number of asterisks to the number of letters in the original word. It'd make it easier to guess what people meant to say in the first place.

I think it used to be 5, but it seems they changed it to 6 :confused: