I rarely use Twitter, so I’m hooping someone who does can answer this: why do so many people self-censor words using an ‘*’ to replace a single letter?
Ex: nearly everyone discussing the Trump shooting is using “assass*nation” and “sn*per” instead of the actual words.
Does this have something to do with having your account suspended? Is it a monetization thing? It’s been done for years with curse/taboo words, but censoring regular terms is bizarre.
#asknostr
It is probably pointless today, algorithms are much smarter than people think but historically these algorithms would look for key words and flag them to someone to review and maybe ban you.
Now it is all automated. The bots needed to be smarter to get there... not only did they have to find f*ck and sh*t, but they also had to be more nuanced and tell the difference between "that was rad as f*ck!" and "I will f*ck your wife!".
But yeah, all in all, it is to reduce the chance that you get demonitised or shadow banned or banned by the platform.
And of course, you don't need to do that shit here. Welcome to #Nostr, welcome to freedom.
