# Automatically flag spam posts containing a certain string?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-flag-spam-posts-containing-a-certain-string/416775>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 6, 2026, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-flag-spam-posts-containing-a-certain-string/416775 "2026-11-06T22:04:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![rlauriston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@rlauriston](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rlauriston)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-flag-spam-posts-containing-a-certain-string/416775/1 "2026-11-06T22:04:27Z")

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I’ve been getting a lot of spam posts containing links to a particular domain. These are not getting blocked by the anti-spam tools.

Is there some way to specify a string as a trigger to automatically delete and block the user? or at least to automatically flag it as spam?

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**Author:** ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 10:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-flag-spam-posts-containing-a-certain-string/416775/2 "2026-11-06T22:09:48Z")

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Yes, the watched words feature can be used to automatically flag or even block posts containing certain strings. There’s more info about it here: [Watched Words Reference Guide](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-words-reference-guide/241735)

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**Author:** ![rlauriston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@rlauriston](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rlauriston)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 11:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-flag-spam-posts-containing-a-certain-string/416775/3 "2026-11-06T23:32:38Z")

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Thanks! Just what I need.