# De limiet van de blocklist voor het blokkeren van woorden op het forum bereikt
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hit-the-blocklist-limit-for-blocking-words-on-the-forum/345199
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** moderation
**Created:** [2 januari 2025 om 02:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hit-the-blocklist-limit-for-blocking-words-on-the-forum/345199 "2025-01-02T02:56:33Z")
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### Author:  [@twofoursixeight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twofoursixeight)
#### Post date: [2 januari 2025 om 02:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hit-the-blocklist-limit-for-blocking-words-on-the-forum/345199/1 "2025-01-02T02:56:33Z")
So I am a moderator of the [forum.creative.gimkit.com](http://forum.creative.gimkit.com) forum and I seemed to stumble across an issue. I reached the limit to how many words I can put in the blacklist. Do you know what I should do to allow a wider array of words to be blocked? I tried to block some links, but all that happened was that it reached the limit, and trying to add more links just tells me I reached the limit.
The forum is running `3.2.0.beta3-dev`
(i wish i can update the forum but i’m not an admin there so yeah)
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [3 januari 2025 om 23:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hit-the-blocklist-limit-for-blocking-words-on-the-forum/345199/2 "2025-01-03T23:47:56Z")
Wowsers. If I may ask what seems to be the limit? Wouldn’t think that would have a ceiling.
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### Author:  [@twofoursixeight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twofoursixeight)
#### Post date: [4 januari 2025 om 00:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hit-the-blocklist-limit-for-blocking-words-on-the-forum/345199/3 "2025-01-04T00:44:39Z")
The amount of words I can block seems to be the ceiling with a limit of 2000
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [4 januari 2025 om 01:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hit-the-blocklist-limit-for-blocking-words-on-the-forum/345199/4 "2025-01-04T01:42:16Z")
We limit all things, and 2000 likely seemed like a sane limit at the time the feature was added. It could likely be raised - what is the number that you think makes sense for your community?
That said, that’s an impressive number of blacklisted words! Why do you feel you need more than 2000 blacklisted words, rather than using the flagging system to let your members know the kinds of words that are not allowed on your site?
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### Author:  [@twofoursixeight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twofoursixeight)
#### Post date: [4 januari 2025 om 03:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hit-the-blocklist-limit-for-blocking-words-on-the-forum/345199/5 "2025-01-04T03:02:45Z")
I uploaded a list of link shorteners to block and it ended up reaching the limit of 2000, but I think 10,000 would be a better cap by default as some people may make use of that feature.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [4 januari 2025 om 08:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hit-the-blocklist-limit-for-blocking-words-on-the-forum/345199/6 "2025-01-04T08:23:02Z")
I think there is already a feature topic about increasing the limit: [Increase maximum watched words limit](https://meta.discourse.org/t/increase-maximum-watched-words-limit/197798)
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### Author:  [@twofoursixeight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twofoursixeight)
#### Post date: [5 januari 2025 om 00:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hit-the-blocklist-limit-for-blocking-words-on-the-forum/345199/7 "2025-01-05T00:03:41Z")
Just upvoted that topic. I will respond to them by linking this topic.