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Comment by drcube | Hacker News Reader

Off topic, but can we please stop pretending that an asterisk means you didn't just say "fucking"? That is pure superstition.

If you're going to use a word, use it. If not, don't. Fuck.

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I don't because in the past, I found it trips proxies and content filters people have ( surprising but true)

I believe it's used to pass censoring filters.

I actually think it's politer and more agreeable to use the asterisk. It's akin to presenting a photo of a bare-chest woman with the nipples striked-out with a black line. Everybody knows what is there, but it makes the picture a lot more agreeable and less obscene.

If you know what the word is, an asterisk doesn't hide anything. If you don't (what are you, 3?), there's nothing to hide.

I don't think nudity is obscene either, but I can see why people might want to remain private. Just because I know what a nipple looks like doesn't mean I know what YOUR nipple looks like.

And of course, to a large segment of the population striking out bare breasts makes the picture a lot less agreeable.

Personally, I find the nipple thing pretty inane as well. I have no idea how anyone benefits from covering them up, especially when it gets to a point where the nipple is the only part of the breast covered.

I don't really see how its particularly less "obscene", nor how someone who would normally find the picture disagreeable would suddenly find acceptance because of a token gesture censoring a small portion of the photo.

Heh, I honestly can't tell whether you're serious or not...

I will agree that it is exactly the same situation.

Tou you and the author, stop being so damned vulgar.

Why can't I have a filter on this site that lets me trash articles and posts with vulgar words in them?

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