Loic Le Meur

Would you prefer it not be on Techmeme? I'd argue that Techmeme should be able to do this. - Louis Gray

interesting edit job on your post! funny! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

That is bullshit - Czar

Gabe told me that he routinely does that with expletives - mathew ingram via twhirl

Well, the software does it. That's pretty easy to automate. More in my comment here: http://www.loiclemeur.com/engl... - Gabe Rivera

Hey Gabe is there a list of all the terms you automated? Curiosity... - Loic Le Meur

at least they didn't change it to bulldog or Shitzu hehe...via feedalizr - JohnBfromMemphis

Haven't published the list. That would be funny wouldn't it? I can show you the code though if you ever catch me with my laptop! - Gabe Rivera

BTW, be careful or I'll transform Loic into L**c. :-) - Gabe Rivera

what if you had it swap "friendfeed" for "twitter". and would people even notice? ;) - Robert Kloosterhuis via fftogo

I think Loic has a typically European reaction: can't believe that techmeme needs to change bullshit into bulls**t. Get real, swearwords are ok. - Julio Alonso

Always wondered why people seem to have a problem with swearing. It's context and intent that are offensive in my opinion, not a few letters of the alphabet arranged. - Matt Harwood

What do the asterisks really hide? - Delete Me

Europeans and Americans just have a very different way of treating these things. I've learned not to swear in public America or people get offended and report you to the police for saying things like that. Sad, but true. - Sally Church

Fuck, that is bullshit. Is the web like conservative prime time tv now? A few weeks ago I did a 24hr experiment where I said the word 'fuck' in every single tweet on twitter for 24hrs to see how people would react. Turns out my twitter followers (over 1700) are very tolerant. I didn't lose many, if any. I think people can handle the word 'bullshit' in a post, heh. - jjprojects

Sally - being reported to the law for personal expression of feeling? Whoah. Democracy in action folks. - Matt Harwood

Come on, seriously. Is this so strange? Do you see "bullshit" or "fuck" on the cover of Newsweek and Time? While TechMeme is certainly neither of those, I'm sure they want the guise of legitimate "reporting" - not cursing is "mainstream." Asterisks are not the same as gags or censorship and nothing to get huffy about. I don't see why people feel the need to curse just for the sake of doing so. Of course, I'm jaded because many in public feel the need to curse around my young daughter. - Vince DeGeorge

Vince - I understand your points, I've always been under the impression there is two types of swearing. Swearing to sound vulgar, and swearing to let things out. For me, the latter is a right, the former a sign of a troubled individual. - Matt Harwood

Matt: A middle aged church lady cut into the traffic from the car park forcing me to break sharply. Someone just missed going into the back on me and I barely touched her bumper, although I did exclaim "oh shit" while thinking she did a very un-Christian thing. The guy behind me was v annoyed with the church lady, so she reported both of us to the Police, sigh. - Sally Church