A lot of the time they are doing it to avoid their posts coming up when malicious assholes search for posts about topics they want to argue about. I guess it works when those assholes are too lazy to try searching with wildcards.
Also a lot of them do it because of habit from games or messaging apps that have language filters. It is a modern version of allowable cursing that older people learned as kids, like saying fudge instead of fuck.
A lot of the time they are doing it to avoid their posts coming up when malicious assholes search for posts about topics they want to argue about. I guess it works when those assholes are too lazy to try searching with wildcards.
Also a lot of them do it because of habit from games or messaging apps that have language filters. It is a modern version of allowable cursing that older people learned as kids, like saying fudge instead of fuck.
Euphemisms are not the same thing as self censoring.