We don’t want users posting emails. Is there a way to achieve this? Thanks!!

We do have a censoring mechanism, but it’s based on words. Your best bet would be to write your own plugin :wink:

Also could you just make it a site rule not to do that? And have moderators remove it if it happens? We haven’t had a problem here with people posting many email addresses.

It’d also be a problem when allowing anonymous emails into the a new topic … the sending email address is posted above the incoming message.

yeah, it is a Pets site, and people start posting their emails about free dogs or cats, which are usually fake. We delete them manually, but still would be good to have an automatic rule for emails.

If you can teach your community to flag these posts as spam when they see them, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how easy it becomes :smile:

censored pattern = \d{3}-\d{4}|[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-]+(\.[a-z\d\-]+)*\.[a-z]+ will censor xxx-yyyy phone numbers and email addresses.

Does the above pattern work for anyone else? I tried entering it and got a “Sorry, an error has occurred.” alert. Even with just \d{3}-\d{4} and regular expressions turned on, it doesn’t block 123-1234 in a post. Was there a change, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks!

[image] pfaffman: censored pattern = \d{3}-\d{4}|[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-]+(\.[a-z\d\-]+)*\.[a-z]+ Where do I enter that?

It moved. Navigate to /Admin/logs/watched words

I think you also need to enable the option regex for watched words in the settings.

Is there any way I can automatically censor email addresses on posts?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 19, 2021, 10:07pm 16

I believe we recently increased the limit from 50 chars to 100 chars here, does anyone else recall?

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Is there any way I can automatically censor email addresses on posts?

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