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.

  • squiblet@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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      1 year ago

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