# Blocking emojis won't work

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-emojis-wont-work/105853>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 7, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-emojis-wont-work/105853 "2019-01-07T02:19:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 4:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-emojis-wont-work/105853/6 "2019-01-07T04:10:33Z")

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Yes I tried blocking both `:fu:` and the emoji version.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/5/f5686054f982df4abc8cd6bfc7311c0502c41f6a.png)

My sock puppet was able to post both times either as emoji codepoint or emoji.

There is some sort of bug here.

@techAPJ can you have a quick look at this.

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