Asterisks??? What's UP???

In the past month or so, I've noticed that people's posts have these *** in them where potentially, and randomly selected letters that COULD spell out some profanity/slang are ***'d out. 

I thought that the post-ers were doing it to be humorous, until it happened in one of my posts. I wrote the words "i****ched", (see....it happened again! I did not type in those asterisks) and it came out printed with asterisks. Not being a person who speaks so crudely, I had to look up the bleeped out letters on a slang vocabulary website to see what I had inadvertently typed.

What is this all about? It makes it appear that people are actually CALLING ATTENTION TO these "bad words"...where, if they were left alone, they are simply regular words.

OH censors...or web gurus...or moderator... what is this for???

thanks...

Lori

poddy mouth!!  tsk! tsk!

 

 

ha ha ha ha ha!

It's in your user settings. toward the bottom it asks about adult content. change it to allow and the *** go away

Darlene...I cannot find the place where that setting choice is... I don't see anything called "user settings"... where do I find that??? Thanks!!  Lori

your left menu, where you do your signature

The last one before you hit submit

Thanks- I feel so growned up now. 

aww so glad....hey you, you going to the wedding? I got my invite last week, but all hell is happening at my house right now....

THANK YOU, Darlene!!

Not only did I get my asterisks removed, but I also got HTML Editor #2 set as my default one so... I can have....

PARAGRAPHS again!! without changing the editor on every post...

you rocked my socks off!

Thanks...

Lori

Too funny  I posted a couple posts below this one and the Subject was "someone has ----hit-----the century mark"  Well I got the lovely stars in it. Well if you write the word has  and the word hit without space you have a naughty.  Go figure.  Geez I am after all a 47 year old grown up,  I can take a little crap.  LOL