It may be to bypass censorship, rather than self-censorship. Some platforms block or shadowban comments with curse words. Not sure about this platform.

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arcanemachiner 9 hours ago | parent [-]

HN definitely doesn't give a crap about that word.

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tombert 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have written many words far worse than "crap" on this site. I haven't gotten in trouble over it yet.

I do find it a little amusing, because commenters stopped criticizing my cursing the moment I started getting a good chunk of karma here. I remember in 2016 someone criticized me for using the term "shitposting"...I don't think I've gotten that kind of criticism since 2016 though.

	▲	Tade0 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Back then the term was still associated with 4chan.
	▲	protocolture 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They dont like "seppo" for some reason.

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smnplk 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

can confirm, looks like crap is not on a list

	▲	flamedoge 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		pretty crappy list