I completely agree Sirena. The censor overkill issue made me the angriest when the site finally came back up. I couldn’t even understand some of my own posts! I so wish I had thought to copy my whole post before it went down.
Some other words that are replaced with asterisks :
***, need, ****, fear, drug, *****, matter, stole, ***, mood, alcoholic, cheat and one of my favorite words in the English language … ****.
My thoughts were, “Is the ‘new tone’ of our website with it’s ‘come on in to our pretty site’ attitude going to be such that we can no longer use words that might, IN ANY WAY, be perceived as offensive? Will we be expected to make all of our posts pleasant and only talk about things in a pretty way now? (‘cos there ain’t nothing pretty about this disease!)”
I sincerely hope this is just a temporary glitch that stems from using some generic addiction model software or something and they just haven’t gotten it modified yet.
TO GT:
1. Is the censorship an intentional attempt to lighten up the tone of the website?
2. If it is, do you think you will “lighten up” on the censorship?
Adele