- homocidalham
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- Exalted Mythic Member
"That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.
Now try how and why."
As much as I like to use profanity in real life, I find the profanity filter here, oddly enough, forces people to utilize profanity correctly. Profanity is so overused on the internet that it really doesn't mean anything anymore. "-blam!-" on the other hand, is undefined, and therefore essentially represents every profanity simultaneously, but it's format (the dashes and exclamation point) prevents people from trying to evoke the emotion casually.
No one is going to take you seriously if your post consists of nothing but "-blam!-." Aside from this, even though "-blam!-" is filtered, it's an onomatopoeia that evokes a sudden, violent event. As such, the filter is still able to capture emotional substance of profanity, but only if used sparingly.