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How can I ban an exact word ?

For example, if I would like to ban the word 'apple' and add that to spamfilter,

it'll catch 'apple' as well as 'an apple a day', 'applet' and 'dapple'.

If I do ^apple$, it'll only catch the exact 'apple' word and the sentences like 'an apple a day' and 'an apple is' will escape but 'applet' and 'dapple' will not be mistakenly caught though.

I wonder how can i modify it so that, the spamfilter will catch only, 'apple' , 'an apple a day', 'an apple is' but will not catch, 'applet', dapple', etc...

Thank you all...!

May I ask why you wish to do this?

I just want to ban a bad word without affecting other innocent users. Moreover, it can also help my knowledge right ?

Stealth: What's the alternative application of exact-word matching?


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Annihilator90 wrote:I just want to ban a bad word without affecting other innocent users. Moreover, it can also help my knowledge right ?

If you can provide for me a straight-forward no BS reason as to why you wish to forcefully block the free use of a single word on your network, then I will tell you.

Otherwise, there is no reason any single word should be forcefully blocked from use on an entire network.