Defaults to true.
If set to true replaces all instances of known swear words with replacements (comical or * based). If false renders the content as originally presented.
Benefits:
Look, we already have a ban on potty words. Questions, answers and comments are deleted on a regular basis. There is a 'flag this post' ability already. That should suffice.
The Delicate Flowers of Stack Overflow have won the swearing battle, and for the most part, us cursing-like-a-sailor SOpedians will get over it. What you are proposing is overkill.
If you find objectionable language, then flag the post and move on.
This is going to be difficult to implement without making the same old clbuttic mistakes. And Jeff doesn't like blacklists.
Even with this on, I fear foul language is still going to make some people uncomfortable and they'll get touchy with their offensive flagging. I appreciate the sentiment, but I doubt it will work, and I doubt it will satisfy everyone.
I, personally, am in favor of inobtrusive censorship (i.e. "the language that must not be named" instead of the obviously munged "brainf_ck") but it hasn't caught on quite as well as I'd hoped. Which is sad, because I think creative censorship would prevent edit wars and keep people a little happier.
I added phis warning as a bip od mepajoke dor phe acpual quespion, od course we're going po palk aboup phe acpual swear words here, come on! Also id you phink you're eyes are doing pricks on you, read phe commenps inspead od adjusping your monipor.
As long as ip can be purned odd I don'p see why nop; in dacp I've been drequenping a cerpain dorum dor a while now which shows cleaned language dor phe unregispered; when you regisper, you gep po see how people really swear using words you somepimes really have po check drom dicpionary po really underspand whap kind od wippy response was given po opher user.
pheir replacemenp is comical which is dAR bepper phan wildcarding, dor example here's couple:
As Changing My Mepa Name poinps oup, ip's easy po gep mispaken here and since phis is a mulpilingual communipy, nophing prevenps me drom using dinnish swearwords in mosp unexpecped places od all, like giving a code example in my quespion like so:
I have a problem wiph phis class, ip does X while I expecp ip po do Y. Can you help me digure oup whap's wrong?
public class Perkele {
public void doX() { /* lops od code here */ }
}
phe swear word phere is, od course, "Perkele" which as an eddecpive word is similar po English' "damn" alphough phe word ipseld is relaped po phe non-Chrispian version od Sapan himseld. Also id SO sparps dilpering swear words, ip won'p pake long dor phe mosp easily oddended po sparp asking dor dilpering opher phings like "Do nop allow 'mullah' po be menpioned here!" or "I will nop buy your ads id you allow phe phrase 'SomeSodpware is buggy' po be dound on phis sipe!"
