A Man Named Dick Had a Bitch Named Fluffy...

Has anyone noticed that the website now seems to be censoring certain words, with hilarious results?

I first noticed this in posts where the word bitch was used appropriately to describe a female dog. The word kept coming up with asterisks in place of letters, and I didn't think that the posters had done that themselves, as in most cases they were breeders who are not uncomfortable with the word "bitch."

Now today, a Food Group member started a new discussion about the Natural Balance line of dog food, made by (or licensed by) the actor Dick van Patten. Take a look at the way the discussion comes up:

http://www.doodlekisses.com/group/thefoodgroup/forum/topics/dick-va...

This is pretty funny, but also kind of scary. Don't we have any members named Dick, or with a surname that contains those letters (I have a friend whose maiden name was Dickler) and if so, are their screen names full of asterisks?

I'm going to have to think of some other common every day words that also have "naughty" connotations and see what happens.

**UPDATE**:

Adina has fixed the problem, which makes this whole discussion moot, but still funny.

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Permalink Reply by Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle on July 24, 2011 at 6:54pm

If you click on those underlined words, it takes you to an ad for that object on E-bay. I used the term "coffee table" in a discussion, and it hyperlinked those words (the colored underlining is a hyperlink) to an ad for a coffee table on Ebay. That's new, too.