Censor specific text patterns

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

This now exists, see

Support for wildcards in word censoring

Hey look what we added this week: [image] This is a new setting that works alongside censored words, but is a regular expression. The above example filters 7 digits of a phone number. If you like it, call me at 555-1234! The value entered in the setting is checked to see if it matches too greedily like (.)*. Also, if cooking a post ever fails because the javascript engine timed out, then the censored pattern setting will be cleared on the assumption that it’s an evil regex like (a|aa)+.