Posted by Dr. Bob on October 31, 2004, at 11:50:14
In reply to LOu's request to DR. Hsiung-oflang, posted by Lou Pilder on October 31, 2004, at 7:29:17
> I am requesting that you clarify how language that could be deemed offensive is considered here to be acceptable if one of the letters in a word that could be deemed offensive is replaced with a star,(*).
It's a compromise, people value freedom of speech, too.
> In one of your situations here, a poster used a moniker thast could be seen as [another] word ... even though the letters had some rearrangement. You responded by asking the poster to change his name used in the subject line.
That was different, stars are for specific words and phrases considered often or usually disparaging, obscene, offensive, or vulgar by Merriam-Webster OnLine:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faq.html#civil
Bob
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