My profile essay contains the word "analytical". I wanted to edit some other part of my essay and when I tried to save the edit, it said that my essay contains the word "a n a l" which was a censored word, so it could not be saved unless it was changed. I don't know of any other word that means analytical" but doesn't contain those 4 letters! So I cancelled the changes. (Apparently it allows my older version of my essay to remain as is, but if I make changes to the essay, it will flag the letters "a n a l" and not let me save the new essay. But seriously...those 4 letters, even as part of another word, flags your essay and prevents it from being saved? Isn't that kind of ridiculous? What if I were an analyst? Would I not be able to even mention what I do for work because it CONTAINS those 4 offensive letters?

Idlehans

I'll note this for our developers, idlehans. Perhaps they will be able to make it a bit smarter.

Charles, when last I checked (maybe a week ago), this bug had NOT been fixed...I still could not save the edits to my profile essay, because it contained the letters "a n a l" (and I purposely separate them by spaces because otherwise, I think they might be asterisked out, even in this forum!) Are the developers indeed working on this, or has it slipped through a crack? It really is kind of ridiculous. Even if you want to censor that word, you could qualify the filter by putting spaces on both sides of the word, to make sure it censors just that word. As it is now, "canal", "analyst", or indeed my word "analytical" is flagged. Apparently it lets me keep my old version of the essay, despite containing the word analytical, but it doesn't let me save any new edited version. Can you follow up on this?
Thanks.

I've also noticed this in several other profiles, but never took note until today. Specificaly I noticed it in the essay of the member jonesie45. She makes reference to someone losing their "pion". I believe what she meant to say was "passion", but the censors edited out the three letters "***" out of the middle of the word! Don't you think this a bit RIDICULOUS!?? Allow the word "passion" to be displayed! Or "analytical". Isn't this censored-word "protection" feature of your website kind of silly!!

Yes, it was certainly overbearing. Fortunately, it was changed a few days ago so that profiles are no longer subject to our censor.