landt5 wrote And by the way, my use of DEPLORE is, in my opinion, the same as your use of #!?%&, or whatever it was. Everyone keeps getting what happened here wrong, because there's a mod looking to save his or her own behind that keeps editing my explanations; and of course, trolls like John that come in and make the situation worse without understanding it, and silently exiting stage left soon as that's pointed out to them. So this will be my last word and explanation on the subject. In the OP, I explained that I was getting a mysterious "Please try again later" error that kept me from posting. The error message was exactly that vague, so it took me 24h of re-posting at various times with various browsers before I had the idea to post this thing one paragraph at a time. This allowed me to isolate the paragraph, then the line, then the word at fault. Without any help from Adobe.com hinting at what the problem could be. Turns out the word -- which I will not post here -- was the American synonym for being "too detail-oriented". It begins with A and is 4 letters long. Most of us have used it in this context. In my case, I was referring to being too detail-oriented with my coding. Innocent enough, right? But contrary to the narrative John is pushing, I never had an issue with that word being banned. It's to avoid its literal use, not its figurative one; I get it. Rather, my issue was with the faulty Adobe.com UX that won't even tell users what's preventing them from posting. There isn't even a hint that censorship is involved, so it could technically be a database problem or who knows what else on the server side. When a website asks me to try again later, that usually means the problem is on THEIR side. So far so good, right? To help Adobe, I decided to create this thread that explains how the UX needs to be looked into, because users aren't getting the reasons for their posts being turned down and are told to try again later, which of course sends them in an infinite loop of not being able to post this message, ever. The title of the thread was originally "So I made the mistake of using '****' instead of 'Detail-Oriented' on Adobe forums, and everything went haywire" except that where the stars are, I put 3 out of the 4 letters. So I self-censored to escape the censorship, but still wanted people to know what got censored and how the site failed to give me the reason. That's when an overzealous mod came in and just started cutting words from the post, including the title, which made it read like this "So I made the mistake of using instead of 'Detailed-Oriented' on Adobe forums" cutting out everything that gave the thread any kind of meaning. After I complained that sentences stripped of words no longer made sense, the same (or another) mod returned to add words back in, which made the situation even worse. That's when I asked that this entire thread be deleted -- so of course, it's still here; in its mangled, nonsensical form. Should I have known not to use the word because some people will take it literally? Again, that's not the issue. The issue is Adobe censors and blocks posts without telling authors what the word at fault is, or even that a word even IS at fault. Get it? THIS IS A COMPANY THAT CREATES AND SELLS UX PRODUCTS. You would think this would be a big deal to them. To be honest, after this experience, I want nothing to do with trying to help Adobe with a problem ever again. So I hope whoever found this thread and made it this far at least got something out of it. Now try to imagine what they would've gotten out of it without this final explanation... nothing, that's what. And that's why the problem exists.
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