Just so you know Roosterboy, not being difficult, my example was typing like one sees swearing in some of the old comic strips back in the day. Someone cursing represented by: #@%$!$@
Yeah, I got that and that's fine. (BTW, the technical term for that is
grawlix.) In that case, you can't tell what the censored word is so you're good.
I got a warning for self censorship with a word that was allowed and it just looked vaguely like the word.
As you rightly should have, since you broke the rule.
So, according to what I quoted here I shouldn't have been given the warning.
Quite the opposite.
It didn't start with S or F or any word that the filters would have filtered out.
But, by your own admission, you could tell what the word behind your clumsy attempt at self-censoring was. So it's a violation. In fact, your own description of your violation matches exactly with one of the examples of what not to do in the very text of Rule 2 itself. Check out the first of the two examples given in the rule; it doesn't use any of the letters in the actual word but rather uses symbols that vaguely resemble those letters. And it's a word that the censortron allows through to boot!
So, in summary: Don't self-censor. We have a censortron so let it do it's job. If you want to type
shit, type
shit; the censortron allows that through unscathed, so it's all good. If you want to type ******, type ******; that particular word has been deemed unacceptable on these forums so the censortron blocks it and you're still good. Don't get cutesy and use @ for
a or $ for
s or whatever other ridiculous disguise you want to use to hide what you're saying but still make it recognizable what you said. Do like NeonKnight did and use complete gibberish. *** is acceptable self-censoring. ##### is acceptable self-censoring. %#@*£! is acceptable self-censoring. Anything where you can still tell what the original word was is not.
