So I am a moderator of the forum.creative.gimkit.com forum and I seemed to stumble across an issue. I reached the limit to how many words I can put in the blacklist. Do you know what I should do to allow a wider array of words to be blocked? I tried to block some links, but all that happened was that it reached the limit, and trying to add more links just tells me I reached the limit. The forum is running 3.2.0.beta3-dev (i wish i can update the forum but i’m not an admin there so yeah) [An error message appears on a computer screen indicating that too many words have been entered for a specific action. (Captioned by AI)] [A user interface page with options for blocking certain words or phrases in a post to become a warning. (Captioned by AI)]

Wowsers. If I may ask what seems to be the limit? Wouldn’t think that would have a ceiling.

The amount of words I can block seems to be the ceiling with a limit of 2000

We limit all things, and 2000 likely seemed like a sane limit at the time the feature was added. It could likely be raised - what is the number that you think makes sense for your community? That said, that’s an impressive number of blacklisted words! Why do you feel you need more than 2000 blacklisted words, rather than using the flagging system to let your members know the kinds of words that are not allowed on your site?

I uploaded a list of link shorteners to block and it ended up reaching the limit of 2000, but I think 10,000 would be a better cap by default as some people may make use of that feature.

I think there is already a feature topic about increasing the limit: Increase maximum watched words limit

Hit the blocklist limit for blocking words on the forum

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twofoursixeight January 5, 2025, 12:03am 7

Just upvoted that topic. I will respond to them by linking this topic.

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Hit the blocklist limit for blocking words on the forum

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