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You didn't decide, you ***-up royally and the California DMV decided instead of you!
by major4x 3y ago
You didn't decide, you ***-up royally and the California DMV decided instead of you!
- l33t7332273 3y agoIs it ass-up?
- Faaak 3y agoUnrelated, but what's the goal of obfuscating obviously known "bad" words ?
- l33t7332273 3y agoI don’t obviously know the word though. Was it intended to be ass?
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3y agoIt's "fucked up", but they used an arbitrary number of asterisks.
- gjliajwltijawe 3y ago[flagged]
- coldtea 3y agoSome do it because others are offended if they see them in full print. Others do it because in many places you wont pass moderation without it.
- solarkraft 3y agoI'm more offended by having to guess which word is meant.
- latexr 3y agoIt doesn’t matter what the word is. It’s [expletive], it’s grawlix, it’s whatever swear word you want, in whatever language you speak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix
- ghusto 3y agoI don't think I'm alone in reading "they ** up" as "they fucked up" in my head, without meaning to. So whoever would be offended, is still offended, only now they can't complain about it since the person technically didn't swear.
- barrysteve 3y agoThe censored swear communicates a big screw up, without taking off the professionalism hat. The effect of the swear is doubled in a professional environment, when delivered the right way.
- ghusto 3y agoI think that was his point; it doesn't, and instead implies that the writer is hypocritical ("I'm going to swear, but I won't actually swear").
- barrysteve 3y agoIt does, just not on the internet. There's no stakes here (the internet) for it to matter if you swear or not. Your attitude on the internet won't result in any meaningful feedback, by default. Someone has to be watching from a more strict environment for it to matter what you say on the internet. It needs to affect your job, or your wife needs to read your posts, or a moderator needs to clamp down on you. The community accepts swearing by default. Soo people who are in professional environments are going to bring their communication norms with them when they post online. An I over -explaining an answer to a rhetorical 'why?' question. I think I am. I can never tell online, if people are literally asking a question that requires explaining OR it is simply a rhetorical question. Oh well. c'est la vie.
- major4x 3y agoThis is a great diverging discussion about the "censorship" and the commenting style in public forums. Let me add something: when I was writing the original comment that started all this, I wanted it to be funny, catchy, snarky, and karma-point-worthy. So, I decided to put a swear word as a stylistic choice. Then, to add some extra to the short comment, I decided to poke fun at the whole FCC bleeping regulation. Here, I will warmly recommend a book dedicated to bleeping over the seven "unspeakable words": the famous Steven Pinker's famous book "The Stuff of Thought". Now, about the number of asterisks: I really didn't think that much about this, I kind of think I counted the right number of letters, but then there is no caret overwrite mode in the bleeping browser, which is yet another story...
- steve1977 3y ago„You don’t fire me, I quit!“