why do have asterisks in my question

[humpy33]

in my previous question why has weightwatchers been replaced with asterisks

[Englishbird]

LOL I've never noticed that before. PMSL !!

[Englishbird]

don't know why they've deleted the previous answer - as what i've written now doesn't make any sense at all - it said that it has probably been asterisk'd because it has a potential 'swear' word in the middle of it.

[bernardo]

Because there is a computery thing (ie not a human being with common sense) which automatically cuts out anything which looks like a swear-word.  You actually wrote "wate wotchers" but it thought you wrote "way [rude word] chers".

[brachiopod]

It also happens quite a bit in the 'Music' category when people ask about a hit record that a band had, using the apostrophe "s" followed by the word 'hit'.

This is usually enough to send the computerised censor into electronic fits of apoplexy, despite the  's and hit being separated by a space.

[Fern57]

Is this why there's no 'Food and Drink' category? I can see it now -
'1 1/4 oz. Gin, 1/2 oz. Apricot Brandy, Splash of Lime juice, Dash of Grenadine. Shake with ice,Strain into a chilled ******** glass' lol

[murvic]

I think that somebody had a problem a few years ago when the town of Scunthorpe was rejected by a computer. 

I'm only sending this for the devilment.

[Fern57]

Just before Xmas a drama group sent out a load of e-mails to schools asking them if they would like them to put on the panto 'Dick Whittington' - All the schools' email scanners deleted them. They wondered why none of them replied.