i mean
have you ever noticed that you can use *** in conjunction with another word and it wont get censored?
assbag, asshat, assdouche, idk get creative...
however, both *** and ******* will be censored.
I believe the reason for that is because they don't want words like assassinate to have the first 6 letters as assterisks...
However ********inate will have the first 8 letters censored
Edit: I wonder what happens to ******* or *******
apparently if the second half of the word gets censored... *** will be censored too. Interesting.