# Best Practice for auto-flagging watch words

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practice-for-auto-flagging-watch-words/27566>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** moderation\
**Created:** [April 14, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practice-for-auto-flagging-watch-words/27566 "2015-04-14T17:03:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![benjaminsanborn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/benjaminsanborn/32/115963_2.png) [@benjaminsanborn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/benjaminsanborn)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practice-for-auto-flagging-watch-words/27566/1 "2015-04-14T17:03:20Z")

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Hello, first post here.

I would like to have the ability to set up words or phrases in the content of a post that, when used, automatically creates a flag for a moderator to review. The use-case is watch words that indicate a suicide threat.

A nice-to-have on top of that would be the ability to let a flag be “hidden”, so it only appears in the moderator list, not on the original post.

I’ve done some looking around, but I haven’t found an existing implementation of this feature. If it doesn’t exist, I’m going to take a stab at a plugin to accomplish the same.

Thanks!

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