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 le…

@eviltrout is currently working on adding support for a generic queueing system for posts which can be used by plugins. You’ll have to wait for it to be done (hopefully this week) and then you’ll be able to hook into this system in your plugin :wink:

Has there been any progress on this by any chance? I have a use case where I need certain words to cause a post to be flagged as needing to be moderated prior to being published. If a word is recognized in the post, a Moderator would need to approve the post before it goes out. I want free and open …

Best Practice for auto-flagging watch words

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k4rtik (Kartik) April 27, 2018, 1:35pm 4

Looks like it is already implemented, found the steps here: When watched words regular expressions is true, watched words does not allow uppercase regex

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Best Practice for auto-flagging watch words

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