diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/pretty-text/censored-words.js.es6 b/app/assets/javascripts/pretty-text/censored-words.js.es6
index e81032393f8..bc9aa59ee0e 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/pretty-text/censored-words.js.es6
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/pretty-text/censored-words.js.es6
@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@ export function censor(text, censoredWords, censoredPattern) {
   }
 
   if (censoredPattern && censoredPattern.length > 0) {
-    try {
-      new RegExp(censoredPattern); // exception if invalid
-      patterns.push("(" + censoredPattern + ")");
-    } catch(e) {}
+    patterns.push("(" + censoredPattern + ")");
   }
 
   if (patterns.length) {