I beg to differ from some of the comments. True, curse words are used daily by persons in general, however, a working person (like myself) doesn't hear it all day long in every sentence or two (unless you're a sailor???), so I don't see a comparison with the Forum. What I mean is, some of the threads are so filled with asterisks and creative ways of expressing the words, so that they don't get filtered, that once I stopped reading the Forum altogether for a while before coming back, and sometimes I'm tempted to leave again. Meanwhile, I've developed a way to read the comments.
I'm not an emotionally uptight *** who lives in a fantasy world though. I'm glad for the filter and I don't think the filter is offensive. Just sayin'.