Changing my Grammar

If it's any help, I mean predictive text. I don't know how it works though because I don't use or understand it.

 

Okay, Victoria, just for you I will explain (again). The profanity filter is set by Nathan and me. Nathan chose to have each character replaced with "tree" instead if the usual asterisk. On another forum, each character is replaced with the phrase "wash my mouth"! It takes all sorts. But I've no idea where the replacement concerning urinating came from - certainly not from anything Nathan or I have done, nor, to my knowledge, anything embedded in vBulletin.

However, if I might draw your attention to the rules, it says there the following

5. NO BYPASSING THE PROFANITY FILTER OR USING PROFANE LANGUAGE. Despite the modern tendency to make normal use of certain ‘cuss’ or swear words or other insulting or potentially insulting words or terminology, their use on this forum will be closely scrutinized and moderated according to staff consensus. Alternative wordings such as bl@@dy or bu99ger come within this rule.
Posts may be edited or even temporarily deleted until a decision is made.

In other words, if you find you've tripped the profanity filter, it's expected that you would go back in and edit the word to something more acceptable or it's a rules violation.

And for your information, this is a screen shot of the filter's current entries (which I will be removing tomorrow)

 

Daisees! Wash your mouth out with soap!

 

Would something like "wash my mouth" not be better than the multiple "tree" that is now in place?
Being a gardening forum I can see where tree came from, but it does look odd, and has caused confusion, where as "wash my mouth" is a better explanation.

Or how about "swearing removed" or "auto edited for swearing" or "bad word" or something else I haven't yet thought of.

 

I worked with a Church going man once who used town names instead of swear words.

It was quite effective.

 

I used to live near a place called Pratt's Bottom.

 

I've got quite used to the treetreetree thing now. Although at first I did wonder why Shiney's Duke of Edinburgh quotations were full of stuff about trees. I thought his son was the treetreetreetree tree-hugger.