Blocklist by RegEx

[rsforge]

I was trying to create a family friendly environment, but it quickly became quite cumbersome. Having to explicitly state every blocked tag seems unnecessary. It would be amazing if I could just create a regex to block all media with tags containing blocked tokens.

I'd try and do it myself, but I'm quite unfamiliar with this code base.

Keep up the great work!

[Advait251206]

+1 from me.

The current tag blocklist works well for a small number of tags, but it becomes difficult to manage when you're trying to maintain a family-friendly environment and the list of tags keeps growing.

Being able to block tags using a regular expression (or even a simpler wildcard pattern) would make administration much easier. Instead of maintaining dozens of individual entries, administrators could define a single rule that matches an entire category of unwanted tags.

A few considerations if this were implemented:

• Regex validation would be important to prevent invalid patterns.
• Clear documentation and examples would help users avoid unintentionally blocking large portions of the catalog.
• For performance, patterns could be compiled and validated when saved rather than on every request.

Even if full regex support is considered too complex, wildcard/glob matching would still be a significant improvement over exact-match-only filtering.