astericks in posts

anyone know why posts will have randomly have *****s (intentional) in them?

Denotes words that have need banned...

Yes, but sometimes there doesn't seem to be any logic applied!

Its the 8th wonder of the world...why is ****** or d r i n k s banned...the mind boggles!!!

Pops, how about the 's0n' in the word pers0n being substituted for 'mister'? Where's the logic?

just type a space in the word... ANY word... and it will appear...
f ucking... c ock... h umiliation... etc...

It is really even funnier if you read the non-English language postings. The word censoring program looks for English words, so if a foreign word, by coincidence, is spelled the same as a forbidden English word, it is censored, even though in the language of the posting its meaning is perfectly innocent. And vice-versa.

The main problem is that the list of forbidden words is way too extensive, and also the censoring program does not take into account the context.

F'ing censor

Besides, the list is positively cretinous ... why on earth should something like 's leep' be banned?