Comment by Cthulhu_
2 days ago
You can say fucking here, one, we're all adults, two, there's no algorithms on HN penalising you (and if they were they'd penalise you anyway because it's not 1995 anymore), and three, it's almost insulting to believe replacing a letter with a star will make a word unrecognisable.
That said, this is why I like HN or any other kind of curated website, the voting systems and comments and the like will (hopefully) make sure low-effort writing will be filtered out.
There are algorithms at play across HN. There are more types of algorithms than ones that penalize comments with swear words in them.
Some HN algorithms are run by HN servers, some are run by HN moderators, and some are run by third parties.