I guess this one is more for the moderators. Please understand, I'm not complaining at all, but I noticed while posting that if you use the d--- word (to condemn), or the h--- word,(the hot, lower region), the c--- word (poo-poo), and maybe a couple of other "colorful" adjectives and metaphors, they usually make it through unscathed and unmodified into the text of the post.

If you use the b---- word (female dog, or, well....) it comes out as asterisks in the text. Is this due to something in the software that recognizes this word, or is it more offensive than the other words, or less politically correct owing to this being (I imagine) a coed site?

I generally use this word to describe something that was aggravating or difficult without really needing to be, and intend no gender-based connotations. I have much better words for those circumstances and would not use them here, at any rate.

Like I said above, it doesn't really upset me, and I don't see it as censorship; it's probably a pretty good idea, given my propensity to potty-mouthedness sometimes. I guess that once you use these more "colorful adjectives", the older ones like shucks, darn just don't convey the emotion.