# Censor Pattern Unless Admin

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/censor-pattern-unless-admin/78510>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 19, 2018, 11:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/censor-pattern-unless-admin/78510 "2018-01-19T23:23:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dardub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dardub/32/201848_2.png) [@dardub](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dardub)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 11:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/censor-pattern-unless-admin/78510/1 "2018-01-19T23:23:05Z")

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Hi,

I’ve added a censor regex for email and phone numbers, but it censors postings by admins as well. If we’d like to direct people to a support address, we can’t do it. Is there any way to turn this off for admins? I could not find settings for this.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![dardub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dardub/32/201848_2.png) [@dardub](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dardub)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 11:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/censor-pattern-unless-admin/78510/2 "2018-01-19T23:32:18Z")

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Also I it looks like when you censor an email address, the mailto link is still there. So maybe censoring emails is somewhat pointless unless that can be changed as well.

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**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/censor-pattern-unless-admin/78510/3 "2018-01-20T00:00:22Z")

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> [@dardub](#):
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> maybe censoring emails is somewhat pointless unless that can be changed as well.

Yeah, this isn’t really what the censoring system was built for. You might be better off with a purpose-built plugin for this.