Hello, I am getting the following message when adding a URL that contains the words federal-black to an Event. An error occurred: Sorry, you can’t post the word ‘federal-black’; it’s not allowed. I checked Watched Words and these words are not listed. Where is this error coming from? Regards

[image] ppcole: Sorry, you can’t post the word that specific text only displays for watched words. so double check that it’s not being used in any of the sections: [Screenshot 2024-09-23 at 11.35.51 AM]

Did you try the test function, does that report a match? [Screenshot_20240923_200737_Firefox]

Thanks for responding Moin, I did and no matches are found.

hmmm :thinking: yea you should be able to use that string in a URL, something else is interfering. I just succesfully created a new post with it that also created an event in my test calendar. [Screenshot 2024-09-23 at 11.25.05 AM]

Does it work to post the term in a normal post (without an event) or is that blocked as well?

Ok, but what could be interfering? I only know about Watched Words functionality

Resolved. I had a watched word of f*ck and that matched Federal-black because of the middle asterix. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Interesting that the Watched Word Test didn’t catch the match.

Blocked words in URL

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ppcole September 23, 2024, 6:36pm 7

Words (URL) are blocked in a regular post also. Weird one.

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