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0 pointstitanomachy2y ago0 comments

Wow I didn't know HN even had obscenity filters, and I've been here for many years.

Guess that's a credit to the general civility of the community.

EDIT: It appears that other people in this thread are freely using profanity, so either your comment was targeted by automation due to the unusual density of banned words, or it's a joke that went over my head :)

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taberiand2y ago

No obscenity filters, but there is a pretty good password filter I hear. For example, my password 'hunter2' will be all **** to you

9dev2y ago

Isn’t it nice how some traditions do stick around. It’s been a while, Cthon98!

redler2y ago

Sadly, this is one of those things that, soon, if not now, only the olds will know about.

astrospective2y ago

Like telling people asking for game cheats to use Alt-F4.

rbera2y ago

That explains it, I was very confused by what I assumed was self-censoring, since the comment didn’t actually clarify anything. I wish there was an accepted way to disambiguate asterisks from server side filters.

macintux2y ago

I assumed this was a riff on the classic bash.org transcript.

http://www.bash.org/?244321

Aeolun2y ago

But we know there are no server side filters here. At least I never had any profanity censored by anything other than the Mk 1 brain.

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