Patheos has a filter that flags comments with 'bad words' in
them for a moderator to approve.
The 'bad words' are often entirely innocent, and it takes
an astounding memory, constant vigilance, and creative editing
to avoid them.
This impedes ordinary conversation, wastes the time of
active moderators, and for blogs without any active
moderation means comments just get lost without warning and
require painful trial-and-error to correct.
This page provides protection.
Averter Notes:
Protected words may behave oddly if you try any editing
after protection.
Protected words may display strangely (probably backwards,
maybe with weird characters either side) in non-Unicode-aware
applications.
Screen readers may not like it.
Notes on the Filter:
Unfortunately there are two filters: the Patheos
'bad words' filter and another one, which may be Disqus rather
than Patheos, which seems to target spam rather than filthy
language.
The spam filter seems to be more sophisticated, and
nothing can be done about it.
Patheos introduced their bad words filter to check a box with Google.
Google will not place ads with them without a filter.
The filter has clearly just been cobbled together from
some bad word lists someone found on the internet and some
simple coding.
Patheos are not trying to suppress
discussions of LGBTQ issues or Islam.
Although they have negligently ignored
the effect the filter has had on their communities.
The last two allow you to protect your posts in-place, so you
don't have to copy-and-paste to and from another site. They
require a userscript manager such as Tampermonkey
Further Discussion:
Here is a discussion with
further elaboration of the above points, plus the story of how
this came about, how the averter works, and has links to lists
of the bad words.