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If I and O are already excluded and you also exclude U that removes a lot of potential rude looking three letter combinations like *** and *** and *** and also
by codeulike 3y ago
If I and O are already excluded and you also exclude U that removes a lot of potential rude looking three letter combinations like *** and *** and *** and also the four letter ones like **** and **** and the dreaded ****. Of course because you have A then **** is still a possibility but very very unlikely
- titanomachy 3y agoWow I didn't know HN even had obscenity filters, and I've been here for many years. Guess that's a credit to the general civility of the community. EDIT: It appears that other people in this thread are freely using profanity, so either your comment was targeted by automation due to the unusual density of banned words, or it's a joke that went over my head :)
- rbera 3y agoThat explains it, I was very confused by what I assumed was self-censoring, since the comment didn’t actually clarify anything. I wish there was an accepted way to disambiguate asterisks from server side filters.
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- taberiand 3y agoNo obscenity filters, but there is a pretty good password filter I hear. For example, my password 'hunter2' will be all **** to you
- 9dev 3y agoIsn’t it nice how some traditions do stick around. It’s been a while, Cthon98!
- redler 3y agoSadly, this is one of those things that, soon, if not now, only the olds will know about.
- astrospective 3y agoLike telling people asking for game cheats to use Alt-F4.
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- AceJohnny2 3y agoyou accidentally the whole thing
- EGreg 3y agoI think the point