Translations:Manual:$wgSpamRegex/41/en

Lots of spammers like to talk about ' ' (some kind of drug. Who cares? not us!) and so you might be tempted to match the word as a spam, but this will also prevent users from mentioning the word ' .' It is very easy to make this kind of mistake. Be careful with your regular expression setting. You want to stop spammers without inconveniencing your users. This problem can be overcome in many cases by including the "\b" word boundary pattern before and after any words that might be contained in a larger word, eg: