Maybe this is just for the administrators, but why are a string of "*cough*"s inserted into certain threads. I though it was an admin censoring stuff that didn't need to be public at first, but now I've realized that's not it. Does it have something to do with metadata when something is copy and pasted? I can't figure out a pattern.

Sorry if this has already been addressed, but in the words of Stewie, I was curious.