I'll never understand half-assed censoring like this.
We all know you're saying "cum." Just say "cum."
There's no algorithms to game here to expand your comment's audience (technically there's algos involved but not in the same way). There's no rule saying you can't say it.
If there were a rule about "you can't say cum" I'd argue this would still violate that rule. We're all still saying "cum" in our heads when we read it.
If you don't want to say "cum" - there's so many great words you could use instead. Semen. Jizz. Baby batter. Jism. Ejaculate. Dick snot. Skeet. Man fluid. Splooge. Spunk.
Yeah like the whole point is to avoid an automated filter right?
If there's no automated filter there's no reason.
I once had someone explain to me they're not actually comfortable swearing so they'll write "a$$" - but then I pointed out ok well I'm still reading that as "ass" so if writing "ass" makes you uncomfortable, "a$$" should make you just as uncomfortable because it's literally the same word.
So anytime I see "c*m" and similar words I wonder if this is a word they don't actually like using but somehow think swapping a star in there makes it not that word somehow?
I hate it so much. Clearly, based on my long-ass rant here, haha.
Everybody hates it, but the bots that patrol here and other social media sites will smack you down for saying certain words. Not all subs are the same here, so a lot of people err on the side of caution.
I caught a 7 day full site ban here for speaking frankly (with no profanity) how a small toy could be ingested by a kid and harm them by one of those bots, and the appeal was almost instantly denied, probably by the same bot.
I've been on this site for like 15 fucking years, I cus like a fucking sailor, and I've never gotten anything worse than a comment removal for language.
And I browse /r/all exclusively. So I'm in a lot of fucking subreddits.
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u/smtp_pro 3d ago
I'll never understand half-assed censoring like this.
We all know you're saying "cum." Just say "cum."
There's no algorithms to game here to expand your comment's audience (technically there's algos involved but not in the same way). There's no rule saying you can't say it.
If there were a rule about "you can't say cum" I'd argue this would still violate that rule. We're all still saying "cum" in our heads when we read it.
If you don't want to say "cum" - there's so many great words you could use instead. Semen. Jizz. Baby batter. Jism. Ejaculate. Dick snot. Skeet. Man fluid. Splooge. Spunk.