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Facility to change order of censor rules #2761

Open kingqueen3065 opened 9 years ago

kingqueen3065 commented 9 years ago

It would be great to be able to change the order of censor rules. To give an example: when somebody called Fred Bloggs wants their account anonymising, I generally start by putting in a censor rule for "Fred Bloggs" (without the quotes), replacing with [name removed]. If I then find somewhere further in, "Dear Fred", I have to add a censor rule for "Fred". But as this is processed before the one for "Fred Bloggs", we then get "[name removed] Bloggs". It would be great if we could rearrange the rules to sort this sort of problem.

RichardTaylor commented 6 years ago

Just adding a +1 to this. @kingqueen3065 has explained the issue very well. The case described of trying to censor variants of a name is the common one on WhatDoTheyKnow so any way to do this more intelligently would be great.