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Should Planet Catfish stop automatically putting astericks in the word Pleco?

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Post by ClayT101 »

I think Planet Catfish should stop automatically putting astericks in the word Pleco? Anyone else? :D
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Post by Barbie »

I think they are a piece of history, and represent the understated and always present humor I love about this place. I personally think they should stay and we can work on world peace, rather than whether or not there are *'s in the word for our favorite sucker fish. :)

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I say keep it ;) its a funny quirk about the site
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Post by Dave Rinaldo »

My vote is for Cl*****1 8)
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Keep it, I agree it is good history.
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Post by spiny »

Keep the ****!!! I had a good laugh the first time, and it is still funny! A smile for free!!! This makes us different; it makes us catfish geeks! :wink:

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Post by Barbie »

LOL! Dave I read that three times before it dawned on me what it meant! Sheesh, I must be tired!

Sorry Clay :wink:

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Post by Dinyar »

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Post by Silurus »

Asterisks are also the spammer's friend (for that matter, so are tildes, ampersands, and other non-alphabet characters):

"Cheap Vi*gr*"
"G*t out of d*bt"
"Online c*sino: free $100"
"Hot teen ch*cks"

And so on...
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Post by ClayT101 »

Wow, looks like I was wrong. I hate them.
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Post by pturley »

Yes, asterisks are a spammers friend for sneaking past email filters, however these small quirks hark back to the original usenet forums on the internet. The origins are that there was a thread specifically that if you typed the word "pleco" on the internet, one of your fish would die!

This is before there even WAS a World Wide Web. Actually, I think the WWW. was just in it's infancy at the time...

The original thread was utterly entertaining, and obviously very endearing in that this tradition survives today on PC.

I vote it stays.
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Post by Jools »

To ignore history is to be blind to the future! Or some such nonsense. It's a rare piece of internet history that should stay.

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