(based on the mattermost-plugin-profanity-filter by Mattermost)
This plugin allows you to manage multiple settings relating to preventing spam and misuse of a Mattermost server. This plugin uses the profanity-filter plugin developed by Mattermost as a base to provide a comprehensive toolkit to manage your Mattermost community at scale.
The plugin has the following features:
- Censor/filter posts on the server (including during editing) to either reject or censor unwanted words (e.g., profanity)
- Words can be replaced with a series of characters (e.g., "*"), or rejected outright with a message to the user
- Automatically deactivate users (cancel registration) if their username matches list of unwanted names
- Automatically deactivate users (cancel registration) if their email matches list of unwanted domains/addresses
- Prevent new users from sending direct messages to other users for some time period
In the future, this plugin will:
- Send notifications to a centralized channel of moderation actions taken
- Allow moderators to restore accounts, perform inquiries on users, see the history of the account and its changes
- Grant "trust" levels to users based on the account status and optional moderator input
- e.g., allow accounts in a certain LDAP group to bypass checks
- Be a hub for all community operations activities--moderation and otherwise
Supported Mattermost Server Versions: 9.3+
- Go to the releases page of this Github repository and download the latest release for your Mattermost server.
- Upload this file in the Mattermost System Console under System Console > Plugins > Management to install the plugin. To learn more about how to upload a plugin, see the documentation.
- Activate the plugin at System Console > Plugins > Management.
You can edit the bad words list in System Console > Plugins > Profanity Filter > Bad words list.
In this list, you can use Regular Expressions to match bad words. For example, bad[[:space:]]?word will match both badword and bad word.
Choose to either censor the bad words with a character or reject the post with a custom warning message:
In addition to the Bad Word List, a Bad Domain and Bad Username list is available to configure. The Bad Domain list is prepopulated with a list of known disposable email addresses. Both the domain and username lists support regular expressions.