what the Totally Obviouse Cencoring On This Random Word are devs?

because i have never heard of it other than to refer to 'deviations' which is used exclusivly on deviantart^^:

Ah! That explains why you seemed confused xP....it stands for Developers ^v^
Dev = Developer.

ok, so i use offencive words often and i hardly censor myself here but there is only one word that gets censored is there a reason for it? it's not even a bad word^^: either someone is loco or there is a heavy religous vibe that i am missing