# Prevent self-referential linkify links in posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-self-referential-linkify-links-in-posts/294033
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** watched-words
**Created:** [October 11, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-self-referential-linkify-links-in-posts/294033 "2023-10-11T19:13:09Z")
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### Author:  [@RBoy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RBoy)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-self-referential-linkify-links-in-posts/294033/1 "2023-10-11T19:13:09Z")
Is there a way to do the opposite, i.e. somehow disable or tell it to ignore watch words while composing a post?
The issues I’m seeing is this:
1. I’ve setup watched words to link specific words to a specific topic (e.g. upload files)
2. When I edit the post in that topic, those same words (i.e. upload files) are used in that post and it automatically replaces those words with a link back to the same post.
This is creating confusion for the users because those automatic links bring it back to the same post. Is there a way to
1. Either disable watched words for a specific category or topic?
2. Disable watched words (manually) while writing a post?
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### Author:  [@Master](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Master)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-self-referential-linkify-links-in-posts/294033/2 "2024-05-09T16:38:04Z")
> [@RBoy](#):
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> 1. Disable watched words (manually) while writing a post?
I started discourse this month, and although the option is very good, I have found the same problem that you mention.
In my case, when creating a topic, and writing the watched word several times, it changes everywhere (even in H1 titles), so I have a “spam nest” in all the source topics.
I would at least like there to be a code to put in the paragraphs, where I do not want the aforementioned rule to apply.
I don’t know if, due to the time that has passed, you have already solved it in some way.
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### Author:  [@RBoy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RBoy)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2024, 1:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-self-referential-linkify-links-in-posts/294033/3 "2024-05-10T01:30:16Z")
I haven’t been able to solve it unfortunately. The only partial solution I have found to set each set of watches words as a regex expression and then manually turn off the regex watched words setting from the admin settings panel each time I want to edit a post with watched words. This is far from perfect because for a simple regex like `(test)` it does not work and is pretty cumbersome to use the admin panel each time I want to edit a watched word post.