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_hilro
on Oct 7, 2021
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The naughty username checking system used by Twitc...
The word is bitch so the sanitised version would be B**
Why portray the bad word as 3 letters - it doesn't make sense.
OJFord
on Oct 7, 2021
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Ha, the same thing probably happened to GP as has happened to you - unescaped * characters (escape with `\`) resulting in two imperceptibly italic asterisks.
_hilro
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you are 100% correct!
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Why portray the bad word as 3 letters - it doesn't make sense.