| My favorite example of filter evasion in recent memory is "$SEARS" being used for "Roblox". To your point, a "secret language" is only useful if it can evade detection and remain in use. The former is difficult because moderators spend an inordinate amount of time perusing the subreddit. The latter requires a sufficiently large "speaker base" in order for messages not to go unnoticed, discouraging speakers. This can be solved by making the "secret language" more accessible (that is, more obvious to new "speakers", but also mods) or by sharing the keys to the language through other channels (which, to some extent, defeats the point of using the subreddit). What tends to happen more often is users using emojis to bypass filters. E.g. CC $eye_emoji V to represent CCIV, or the SOS emoji to represent SOS. Another strategy is obfuscating the message with interspersed noise, E.g. "A-,-A---P,,,L". Generally speaking, these have the same pitfalls as mentioned above and are caught quickly. |