Forum is a dirty word (in user titles)?

[greenMachine]

Hi! I remember when I first joined this forum, I was at a loss for deciding on a title, so I decided to basically state why I was here in the title. Thus, I entered the title "Forum Adventure Fan" (I'm pretty much only here for the forum adventures). After a certain amount of time (could have been minutes, could have been days), I noticed that the word forum in the title was starred out, like it was a dirty word. So, instead of leaving it like that and risking someone thinking I was swearing or something, I changed it to fora, which, from past experience at xkcd, I found to be a reasonable replacement.
Due to a temporary incident today (site wouldn't respond, my new post was on a new page, quadruple-posted, panicked), I changed my title for a few moments. Then, when I went to change it back, I accidentally changed it to forum, instead of fora. This rekindled my curiosity, which is why I am here.

Why is forum starred out in titles? I assume this might have to do with preventing admin impersonation (although I would also assume starring out admin would be sufficient there), but I'm not certain. If this is the case, have I been effectively performing a bannable censor bypass? O_O

I'll change it if that's the case...

[simon.clarkstone]

Related: most of the FA community that I know would recognise "MSPAFA" or just "FA" in place of "Forum Adventure.

[Drillgorg]

vBulletin has a lot of features that we don't use. We don't really care what's in your title as long as its tasteful.

[Inconspicularity]

Fora is just a commonly used replacement for Forum. Just like "jegus", etc. There's no actual censoring, we just assume people don't fucking make really shitty triple-cunted strings of unintelligible half-faggoted swear words.

And this community is too small for admin impersonation. After you get a few infractions you tend to memorise their names.

[Regy Rusty]

Fora is just a commonly used replacement for Forum. Just like "jegus", etc. There's no actual censoring, we just assume people don't fucking make really shitty triple-cunted strings of unintelligible half-faggoted swear words.

And this community is too small for admin impersonation. After you get a few infractions you tend to memorise their names.

This post is literally unintelligable.

Anyway now I'm curious about this too, so I decided to test out greenMachine's assertion and change my title to "Forum Investigator" to demonstrate the phenomenon. Sure enough it's starred out. Does anyone actually know why?

[ardentApathy]

Maybe you misspelled Forum? Parsers can be quite picky, you know!

[Solaris]

No I'm pretty sure it is because of vBulletin feature that this entire thread is about.
I can't think of any mispelling of "Forum" that would lead to it being starred out unless Regy really mispelled it.

[Gordon]

jeez, the op is such a foruming piece of forum. I mean god forum.

You know, I think this is on the right track, we should always censor forum, nothing good ever comes of it.

[tynic]

Drillgorg answered this previously. It's a vBulletin feature, probably designed to stop regular users appearing to have some official position. We don't really need it or care about it, but amidst the slew of other things that need fixing around the place, changing this isn't a high priority. I'll make a note and once things settle down Rich or Brian may do something about it, or they may not.

In the meantime, feel free to use Fora, Forae, Foropoli or whatever else strikes your fancy.