# Watched words links corrupt @mentions and #categories

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-words-links-corrupt-mentions-and-categories/202161>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** watched-words\
**Created:** [August 30, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-words-links-corrupt-mentions-and-categories/202161 "2021-08-30T19:47:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-words-links-corrupt-mentions-and-categories/202161/1 "2021-08-30T19:47:04Z")

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I’ve just converted from @sam’s great [Auto-Linkify Words](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linkify-words-in-post/82193) theme component to the fairly new core Watched Words.

Unfortunately, this has broken any @mentions, #categories, and #tags that happen to contain a Watched Word in the posts on our forum. There are quite a lot of these.

The Theme Component had pretty good logic for this - could this aspect also be incorporated into the core functionality?

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