You Can't Say That! The Case of the Extreme Filters

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Been watching a lot of Sherlock Holmes episodes lately. Each episode is The Case of something or other. I was typing up a response to a discussion and when I hit the button to publish, RED LETTERS POPPED UP! Oh no! The Lord is speaking to me! I'm like: “What? What do you mean 'Fix bad words!'” It turns out there was a typo in my comment and it was profanity. Typing has never been my forte. Then I thought to myself: ~ Wait a minute! Suppose that word is not considered foul language in another language. It's an English word. But suppose it's a word in another language spelled that way and the person is not cussing! LOL. I realized that I was over-analyzing. I guess these filters are sort of necessary to keep the environment from becoming hostile. I'm OK with the filters here. But I was at another site where the filters were turned up to the GAZOO! I couldn't say anything! Even if I said “Nice job!”, it would give back a response: 'Can not post. Words not allowed.' It was totally stupid! What aggravated me even more was that other members were able to post comments on the wall with no problems. I know they were able to post because I could see and read their comments. While some members expressed to me – in another network that they were having problems posting too. That made me think it wasn't the filter but the member profiles that had been flagged. Am I over-analyzing? Has my paranoia kicked in? At any rate I was NOT to going to argue with the site owner; especially since the site owner wasn't responding to messages anyway. I just forgot about it and moved on. The owner still allows me to have blogs at the site and since the blogs are monetized with affiliate links I hope they will generate income. Although I'm not sure if anybody can leave comments with those weird extreme filters turned on. * * * Just me … babbling. Had to get those “voices” out of my head.