# Watched word Approval doesn't work if a user edits the reply

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-word-approval-doesnt-work-if-a-user-edits-the-reply/225668
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** watched-words
**Created:** [April 29, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-word-approval-doesnt-work-if-a-user-edits-the-reply/225668 "2022-04-29T14:18:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 39

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-word-approval-doesnt-work-if-a-user-edits-the-reply/225668/39 "2022-05-19T19:54:08Z")

</div>

It appears I forgot to put in the wildcards for the `t.co/` test. 🙂 Running it again with `*t.co/*` does indeed block the spam link first time as intended. 👍

But I think you’ve found the difference. Approval is different to Blocking, though I appreciate there’s a case for some kind of supervision of the edits as well as the initial posting. I’m not sure that’s a bug as such, as I think it works the same as the other topic/post approval methods? It would be a good addition though.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-word-approval-doesnt-work-if-a-user-edits-the-reply/225668)._