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Originally Posted by jamthecat
Seriously? SERIOUSLY!?
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Yep; Mobileread tends to the G-to-PG rating. Profanity sometimes gets edited out of posts, with a note that it's been removed. Directly insulting posts are sometimes edited. (Kinda depends on how erudite the insults are; the more verbally adept the phrasing, the less likely it is to be edited.) Racy bookcovers also get edited out.
Think of the forum as a set of discussions taking place in someone's living room, where the five- or twelve-year-old kids might wander through at any time. (Because they might. MR is *high* in the google ratings for any ebook topic.) We've had open discussion about explicit topics, but dodge around the specific words that are prone to trigger net-nanny software and the like.