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 Watch Words but it started blocking anything that started with f and ended in k, such as feedback, firetruck, and Frederick. Is there a way to add something like that above to Watched Words where it only looks for that specific phrase and does not treat it as a wildcard?

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.

[imagem]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 to why this is not the case.

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.

[imagem] Using Regex with Watched Words Site Management bookmark This topic explains how to effectively use regular expressions (regex) within Discourse’s Watched Words feature. discourse For sites on our hosting, these settings are hidden. Customers on paid hosting plans may contact our support team at team@discourse.org, to request regex with Watched Words. Note: This feature is not available on our Free hosting plan. Regular expressions (regex) are a powerful tool for defining search patterns. You can use regex in the Watched Words featur… Looks like a site setting needs to be turned on [Screenshot_20240816-001506] Edit after turning regex on it still sees “*” as a wildcard.

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

[imagem] 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 something you’d like us to do. :slight_smile: I think if you do swop over you may need to convert all of your existing watched words into the regex format and reapply them. The regex can be trickier to nail down than the simplified version but can be more versatile as long as you get the regex expression right. For this, you’d want something that could identify multiple workarounds (f**k, f%ck, f&@k, fu ck). Though catching them all can be a game of whack-a-mole (especially if someone is deliberately trying to sidestep the word block rather than use it as a guide of what is/isn’t acceptable).

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.

Watched Words - Existe uma forma de bloquear o uso de asteriscos com certas palavras, em vez de serem usados como coringa?

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Moin 15 Agosto , 2024 17:54 5

Acho que funciona lá, então eu esperaria que funcionasse no Discourse também. Estou curioso para saber por que esse não é o caso.

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