yeah I got an infraction for that too, although I used the adjective variation "d*mned"
I'm not the one running the forums and it's no place for me to decide because I have no authority, but it's my personal opinion that it's hardly a curse word worth censoring. My rule of thumb is if you can hear it on prime time TV, then it shouldn't be banned on an Internet forum... I mean, you have to be over 13 to frequent this forum anyway... I'd hardly consider it as an intellectually demeaning habit, as some of the mods/admin have argued. Plenty of intellectual types, such as film directors and novelists, have used it in many domains of art and media for viable purposes. Such words add a bit of zest to a statement, a bit of passion and gives off a more human quality to text/speech. I can understand some words being censored like f**k, c**t, n****r and even s**t maybe,
but a**, d*mn, h*ll are pretty PG-13 and a little too common to have censored. I guess some people have held back, and maybe those words are a little much for the religious types here (well, the last two I mentioned at least).
Anyway,my bad for going off topic, this discussion really belongs in the Rules forum.