The skulls were too pretty and I'm sure that a lot of people here swore on purpose just to see those skulls. They also thought that it was okay to say what they wanted to because we would see the skulls instead of what we all know that they actually say. And because it was already supposedly filtered out, I would get chastised for telling people to watch their language.

All I wanted was to get rid of the filter, period, so that I could tell people to watch their language and maybe ban a few people...I haven't done that in a long, long time *sigh*...but someone other than me has thought up this idea. I actually like it because, like someone else has said, now people just end up looking silly and like they don't know how to type when they try to swear. Yes, it does screw up the sentences somewhat, but, in my opinion this is the best solution other than not having any swear filter at all. Having **** won't make anyone try to find better words to use because they'll just keep claiming that it's filtered out so what's the big ing deal!

Of course people are starting to go around the swear filter already. I even played around with it myself in Staff for a bit and I can see where that could be fun for some people, but I think that we can come up with better words to use. There are also the ads now that we have to think about and I think that 99% of posts don't need these unnecessary words.