As a moderator of a Discourse forum, you often come across users who just don’t obey the rules. One of the ways that they do this is through the username. I’ve seen quite a few inappropriate usernames. As far as I know, the censored word list doesn’t apply to the username. Would it be possible to get username filtering/censoring features implemented into Discourse?
This would be an incredibly useful feature.
Thanks,
DillonB07
Yeah makes sense that usernames shouldn’t have blocked words in them. I don’t think censoring is enough though, they should just be blocked (there’s already a site setting called reserved usernames that can do this, but it would be nice if watched words were included automatically).
Beyond adding this as a feature, I’d strongly recommend banning serial rule-breakers from the site completely!
Bumping this a bit.
It’s a bit surprising to me that there’s absolutely zero measures in place for this.
As mentioned, one can of course use “Reserved names” for that but since there’s no way to import there in the same way it is for “Watched words”… it’s a bit tricky 