User blog comment:Ale-Alejandro/The Wiki Survey/@comment-1376932-20120429192247/@comment-1376932-20120501234344

I get where people are coming from when they say that censoring the word doesn't do anything, but it does; using the uncensored version of "daf**" is basically just like saying "the f**k", uncensored.

You're not blocking the word out at all; you're just using different words to say the same thing. It's like using symbols to spell out the word. At least with stars, it isn't exact which word you're referring to.