Hi, Is there any way to check staff for inappropriate words during posting? I tried Watched Words option, but it works only for non-staff. As I understand, it works as designed. I would like to avoid staff members use some phrases, for instance, they need to check themselves the URL published (external must be): NOT OK: The issue has been added: https://internal.domain.com/B-123 OK: The issue has been added: https://external.domain.com/B-123 How to achieve this?

Thank you, @sam! The best solution I think is to work staff as normal users but with a sudo button to be able temporary granted as moderators or admins when they need :slight_smile:. Reasons: 1) most of the time staff does the same things like normal users, 2) staff should understand what options of the forum regular users can use - sometimes staff members have the second user profile, but I don’t like this.

I’m looking for a way to give a group immunity to watched words without making them staff. I was thinking that I might replace the self.word with null or spaces in discourse/app/models/watched_word.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub Make create_or_update_word return immediately if the user is member of the group (discourse/app/models/watched_word.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub) Does either of those seem like a reasonable way to allow a group to be immune to watched words?

I could use this also on a new community I’m building. I’ll definitely watch for a solution here.

Watched words for staff members too

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sam (Sam Saffron) February 27, 2018, 7:24am 2

I think you would need a custom plugin to place this kind of restriction on staff. They get a free pass with watched words.

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Watched words for staff members too

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