# Allowing a Watched Word to be in more than one action

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-a-watched-word-to-be-in-more-than-one-action/294030
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** watched-words
**Created:** [August 24, 2023, 8:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-a-watched-word-to-be-in-more-than-one-action/294030 "2023-08-24T20:03:13Z")
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### Author: ![packman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/packman/32/289322_2.png) [@packman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/packman)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 8:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-a-watched-word-to-be-in-more-than-one-action/294030/1 "2023-08-24T20:03:13Z")

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I can understand why most watched word options are exclusive, e.g. if you’re blocking a word then you don’t want to censor or tag the post because of it. However, tagging and linking seem different and I think would benefit from being allowed on the same word.

In my forum users make regular references to a variety of pieces of hardware and software. I already use those product names to tag the posts. It would also make sense to add links to the names so that people can find the third-party website corresponding to the item but that can’t be done at the moment. Is this a restriction that could be/might be removed in future?