# Blocking emojis won't work **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [January 7, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-emojis-wont-work/105853 "2019-01-07T02:19:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![Brandon\_Martus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/brandon_martus/32/127631_2.png) [@Brandon\_Martus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Brandon_Martus)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-emojis-wont-work/105853/11 "2019-02-19T14:35:49Z")
Updated the sites last night and wasn’t able to get this to work. At first, I thought it was maybe because regex for watched words wasn’t enabled, but ticking that didn’t help either. The word is `:fu :` (without the space .. had to add that to bypass meta censor) and is under Censored Words. I also tried under Required Approval, and that didn’t work either. Do I need to do anything else to get this to work? Current Version: [v2.3.0.beta2 +115](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/compare/86a2172bda45953e73b2bffc535c45feeb859eb6...tests-passed) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-emojis-wont-work/105853)._