Watched Words - Is there a way to block the use of asterisks with certain words instead of it being used as a wildcard?

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Using Regex with Watched Words

This topic explains how to effectively use regular expressions (regex) within Discourse’s Watched Words feature. If your site is hosted with Discourse, please reach out to team@discourse.org if you would like to enable this setting. Regular expressions (regex) are a powerful tool for defining search patterns. You can use regex in the Watched Words feature to enhance the accuracy and flexibility of word filtering on your Discourse site. To use reg…

Looks like a site setting needs to be turned on

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Edit after turning regex on it still sees “*” as a wildcard.