Whats the point of writing prn, f@ck, sht or anything like that instead of the actual words? You can still read them, its not like they are gone if you replace a letter or two.

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    Let’s just get this out of the way…

    Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits. And sometimes fart turd twat bitch.

    Whatever is censored is being filtered by your instance.

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    Comes from the social media platforms that auto remove stories that contain certain words. Tiktok, Instagram, etc.

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    On Lemmy, there’s no good reason. But they may be carrying over habits from other sites where there is harsh censorship of non-advertiser-friendly language

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    I’ve seen that for words that are considered to be ‘triggers’, as if saying ‘r@pe’ is somehow different at all than just using the normal vowel.

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      That behavior drives me up the fucking wall, because by munging the word they make it less likely to be caught by user-invoked blocklists. Meaning they’re forcing people to be triggered after taking steps to avoid such.

      Don’t fucking do that shit.

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      A lot of it comes from Tiktok culture. YouTube has started doing it too.

      Videos that say “kill”, “rape”, “died”, etc are all deprioritized by the algorithm if not demonetized entirely.

      People have been editing subtitles to avoid these words, and the behavior spread.

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      I suspect it’s largely become a habit from people being on platforms that have automatic blocked word filters.

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      A filter? Let me test it right now…

      Fuck.

      Unless this is a shadowban type filter, it seems to not be there…

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        Fun fact: you won’t get told when your stuff is removed or if you get banned. You have to check the modlogs.

        This is Lemmy wide.

        And looks like it’s still up as of 2 hours after you posted

        Edit: Spelling

        Edit 2: Spleling

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        I think it’s not a swear filter, but more like a ‘potentially discriminatory terms’ filter.

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          I see. I don’t mind filters that remove racist or homo/transintolerant slurs, that’s keeping a community safer and inclusive rather than enforcement of politeness.

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          Tbh that one drives me nuts, on some sites I can’t even say “Yeah I was bitching about Bad Idea’s availability to my shop’s owner and he said he didn’t want to carry their products because the guys running it are cunts.” (Curious to see what happens to this comment lmao)

          Like dude, I’m the one I said was bitching about the thing, don’t fucking censor my colloquialisms, I wasn’t even trying to insult me!

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    One possible reason is that some words on controversial subjects can attract mobs of posters with an agenda. They search for keywords to find threads to flood with their arguments.

    So posters would get in the habit of saying something like “I love p1n3apple on p*zza” to avoid the wrath of pizza purists (made-up example, but substitute with anything more controversial).

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      This was a big problem during the 2016 election on reddit. There were armies of idiots who searched for comments containing ‘Trump’ and would brigade the shit out of it. But if you changed the ‘p’ to a ‘р’ (the Cyclic character) or changed the ‘u’ to a ‘ս’ (the Armenian character) miraculously you wouldn’t be brigaded.

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    I have been watching Rick and Morty lately and every now and then I have to change the site to find a version of the episode I’m watching where swear words aren’t censored. Like, it’s a show made for adults full of violent and sexual themes, so I think that most viewers have heard the word “fuck” before. I hate it so much when people censor “bad words”, even though nothing prevents them from saying them.

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      One show where removing the censor was a detriment: Metalocalypse. They used a guitar sound on our first few seasons, and replacing that with the actual a wear words was just… less funny? I’ve never felt that way about a show before, or since.

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    Generally I don’t care about words like bitch, fuck, shit, but there are certain servers and communities where cusses or other words are used harmfully towards groups that the community or server is inteded to be a supportive place for, and when they come up in discussion, even just as examples as what was said to them are rightfully censored or have a trigger warning placed in front.

    Community mods and server operators can get overboard with this but they get that privilege because they do the work to moderate it anyway.

  • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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    I have a habit born out of having young kids around of cartoonizing more expressive language that leaks over into online conversations. There might be a bit of that going on along side the more censorship style responses put out elsewhere.