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Why does YA censor words like g1rl, Mus1c and m0vie?
I'm pretty sure there are more inoffensive words that got censored in the past which escapes my memory at the moment, but it's rather annoying to type a long answer to a post, only to redo some parts again with a different character in it just because some words have disappeared from your post after clicking the preview and submit button.
I understand about the asterisk thing with words considered as or offensive. But I meant the words that disappear from your sentence after clicking the submit button. For example, I type the sentence "The listened to music on the radio." what comes out after clicking submit is "The listened to on the radio." So far those 3 words I posted are the ones that disappear consistently for me, which is why I remember them over others.
Aw man it happened again, The first sentence was supposed to be "The G1rl listened to Mus1c on the radio." but it went and disappeared again right after clicking submit. Same with the word "0bscene" right before "or offensive"
Aw man it happened again, The first sentence was supposed to be "The G1rl listened to Mus1c on the radio." but it went and disappeared again right after clicking submit. Same with the word "0bscene" right before "or offensive" in the first sentence of my additional details.
5 Answers
- ClosedLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
I think this may be an issue with your system, not YA. I can type The girl listened to the music from the movie without any problem. So, you might want to try clearing your cache files (temp, history, cookies), then reboot and see if that clears it up. Run a good antivirus program as well. I don't know why this is happening to you, but it is not them doing it!
- 5 years ago
They were censoring Dick Cheney for a while. That made for a ton of fun the politics section.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No amount of censor helps the site. So much trash.
Those 3 words shd not be the ones.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It does not censor words like girl, music and movie.
It censors words like f.a.g.g.o.t, which is a word for a bundle of small sticks, a.s.s, which is a donkey, and b.i t.c h, which is a female dog. Why it does this is beyond me. It used to censor words like Nazi, but doesn't any more. So the censorship list is a moving target. This childish censorship is annoying when you are trying to use a perfectly legitimate term to describe something only to have it appear as a string of asterisks.
You will know it is bad when it gets like this every time you try to type something:
***** ** ******* *** ***** **** *******
We must, after all, protect ourselves from ourselves. We have met the enemy and it is us.
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