I did a little search-fu and couldn’t find the answer, but I apologize if this has already been answered somewhere. Short version, we have a few users who instead of using a watched word, work around the system by posting it with asterisks. For example, they say “f**k.” We attempted to add that to …

I haven’t tried it, but escaping with backslashes like f\*\*k should probably work.

Seems to work. Thanks for the tip. :slight_smile:

Hmm, nope… spoke too soon. That doesn’t block Frederick, but it also doesn’t block f**k.

[이미지] Using Regex with Watched Words Additional Information :information_source: You can test Regex expressions on https://regex101.com/ . If you do so, ensure you switch the regex flavour to ECMAScript. I think it works there , so I would expect it to work in Discourse too. I am curious as t…

I’m assuming this means that regex has to be turned on, correct? We are using a hosted version, and a little search-fu lets me know that I should reach out to the team and see if that is turned on.

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But it doesn’t. Discourse sees f\*\*k literally. So it works if an user really writes f\*\*k.

[이미지] Sean Dahlberg: We are using a hosted version, and a little search-fu lets me know that I should reach out to the team and see if that is turned on. That’s right. :+1: That setting is disabled by default and would need to be toggled on by us for our hosted sites. Let me know if that’s so…

I’m curious — in generally, how can I watch word f**k? Let’s don’t care all variants etc, but how can I tell * isn’t a wildcard but a character? Escaping doesn’t work.

Toggling on watched words regular expressions and adding f\*\*k to Block seems to work for me? Are you testing with a regular user or an admin? Actually, Block works on admin too.

관심 단어 - 특정 단어에서 별표(*)가 와일드카드가 아닌 일반 문자로 사용되도록 막는 방법이 있나요?

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Moin 8월 15, 2024, 5:54오후 5

거기에서는 작동하는 것 같으니, Discourse에서도 작동할 것으로 기대합니다. 왜 그런지 궁금합니다.

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관심 단어 - 특정 단어에서 별표(*)가 와일드카드가 아닌 일반 문자로 사용되도록 막는 방법이 있나요?

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