Support, it's the young kids that need some form of protection, making the filter words randomised will mean profanities will become meaningless to youngsters... Good idea this.
Substituting profanitie for alternate words only encourages kids to try their luck to see what words they get. Hence turns profanity itself into something fun, to them. No support.
An asterix also makes it easier to attract the casual attention of mods...and hence attract a silence. Again...no support.
Support. The asterisks clearly indicate that a player is using game unacceptable language. The easy translation, due to context, often makes hiding the word meaningless. Further, the presence of the asterisks highlights the fact that a player is using these words. If the point of the censor is to promote conversation without these words and obscure their use so kids are less likely to consider them a part of normal conversation and mimic their use, then the asterisks are less likely to accomplish this goal than the suggested substitution protocol. Further, the substitution protocol would discourage actual use of profanity. Any player who was attempting to use profanity to insult another player or to sound cool, would find their attempts humorously thwarted. Rather than face the embarrassment of sounding foolish, players will gravitate to using non-censored language to accomplish their goals. Finally, there is no issue with encouraging kids to post profanity to see how it comes out. Kids now do that to see what gets censored, and just like testing the current censor, that type of exploration will quickly fade. Support
This would not only be better but would be so funny, I can see it now. Shut up you big fat bacon! Support OP.
I would I respect your mom so hard. Make her scream out my name and tell me what a piece of bacon she really is. You would be layin there in bed listening to her yelling "Oh god, oh my God, I respect me harder burnsy, I respect me like an animal, oh yeah just like that, gimme the good bacon papi."