The Scratch Team has rejected banning the word “lmao”, even though the letter “a” refers to an inappropriate word.
However, the Scratch Team has banned the phrase “goofy ahh”, because the word “ahh” refers to the same inappropriate word.
Why did they ban one but not the other?

lmao can mean different things like laugh my apple off
but goofy ahh is not

As far as I'm aware, the “a” in lmao can have different meanings, “ahh” cannot since it's literally a swear with two letters replaced. “ahh” could also be used to refer to a scream but I haven't seen the latter used basically ever.

gdfsgdfsgdfg wrote:

lmao can mean different things like laugh my apple off
but goofy ahh is not

goofy ahh can also mean different things. the word “ahh” can be an interjection like “oh”. so that reasoning doesn't work

INSERT-USER_NAME wrote:

As far as I'm aware, the “a” in lmao can have different meanings, “ahh” cannot since it's literally a swear with two letters replaced. “ahh” could also be used to refer to a scream but I haven't seen the latter used basically ever.

I've never seen the “a” in lmao refer to anything other than the inappropriate word basically ever, either.

Well, everyone has inevitably seen “LMAO” and it doesn’t directly say it.
Goofy Ahh, though, well we all know exactly what it means.

The Scratch Team's reasoning is likely that one is not considered “very offensive” as opposed to the other. Note that other stand-ins for curse words, like “frick” or “fudge,” are not censored — but “*,” where you replace H with another letter standing for a more vulgar word, is censored.

It's sort of ambiguous on what is considered “more offensive,” but that's just how the English language works.