No. I think it’s a pointless action, doubly so since it’s the only word being censored. If you tell me that when you say ‘banana’ you mean ‘asshole’ and then you call me a banana, I know you mean ‘asshole’. Filtering it to ‘genius’ would be better because at least that’s funny.
There’s probably no way to exempt UK-centric threads, so it’s just the American way or the highway. It’s a bad sign for this place, both the inability of people to stop using it where it’s extremely unwelcome and the impatience of the objectors to waiting and seeing if maybe that could work after a while.