Posted by Lou Pilder on October 31, 2004, at 10:11:26
In reply to Lou's request to DR. Hsiung-oflang-context, posted by Lou Pilder on October 31, 2004, at 8:38:42
Dr. Hsiung,
One of the most reccommended sites on the internet for mental health is called,"Healthy Place.com".
In their FAQ, they write about the use of profanity. Their FAQ writes,[...we have a list of words that are going to be not allowed to be used here. They are words that could be deemed as ["talking trash"], or words that could embarrass you if your children, parents or granparents were to hear them...or "gutter language"... or acting out sexual fantasies...or slurs of sexual orientation....].
Then there is the spacific determination to prohibit the use of asterisks:
[...This includes the use of asterisks(***)to insinuate the word without actually typing it...].
Here, in that site, theowners of the site state that using the star to replace a letter in a word that could be deemed as 'profanity" is insinuating the word without actually typing it and it will not be allowed to be done on that site.
Could you expaline your mental -health reason for allowing posters here to use the asterisk to insinuate the word without actually typing it? If you could, then I could have the opportunity to respond accordingly.
Lou Pilder
http://www.healthyplace.com/communities/alternative/site/rules2.htm
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thread:409477
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