Handling phone numbers and email addresses within public posts

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I have a continual problem with people putting phone numbers and email addresses within posts. (My crowd would not be considered very tech or “forum” savvy, thus I guess this is not surprising.)

Might I inquire as to how other forum owners have addressed this issue?

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Here’s a related topic from a while back:

And here’s a documentation topic for watched words, which could be helpful if you go that route:

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Perhaps if you created a pinned topic asking users not to do this and explain why? And then to enforce it do what @mcwumbly suggested.

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Thanks to each of you on this.

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