Handling phone numbers and email addresses within public posts

[mcwumbly (Dave McClure)]

Here’s a related topic from a while back:

Any way to automatically flag topics and replies that include an email address or phone number?

I guess you could go to Admin > Logs > Watched Words > Require Approval and enter some common @mailproviders and area codes.

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

Watched Words Reference Guide

This is a reference guide for describing how the Watched Words page functions and the different types of action types you can use to block specific words on a Discourse site. Required user level: Administrator Understanding Watched Words You can setup Watched Words to take actions based on words found in a topic or post (located at .../admin/customize/watched_words ). [image] There’s a max of 2000 words per type of action. On all actions, * can be used a…