What is With All The Asian Character Spam???

[Marc Radle]

What is with all this spam every evening with the Asian character titles?

It seems like every evening the forums get absolutely flooded with it! Is there nothing that can be done to stop it?

 

[J.Quondam]

I doubt it can be stopped, but the mods usually seem to ban the spammer fairly quickly once reported.
I just put the spammer on my Ignore list and reload the forum page to clear the trash threads off my screen.

 

[billd91]

They’re like mayflies. Big swarm, short lifespan, massive die off, until the next swarm…

 

[Cadence]

A mod response is in..

Befuddled by Fake Diploma (and similar) Spam

I'm kind of surprised that there isn't any way to auto-deal with the nightly fake diploma spam adds in Chinese. Does Xenforo have a free spam phrase blocker option? If so, would blocking the Chinese characters for WeChat, University, academic, degree, and certificate completely stop it? (If...

www.enworld.org

 

[aco175]

I was thinking this was going to be a different thread and was going to post a picture on the movie 7 Samurai vs Magnificent 7. But all those threads I just block and refresh like @J.Quondam mentioned upthread.

 

[Zubatcarteira]

Enworld.com seems to be a Japanese business website, so they prob got us confused with them.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Just saw our fake diploma friends posting on the Paradox Interactive forums.

 

[Haplo781]

There's also a bunch of spambot posting random strings of characters in the familiar Roman alphabet. Usually 2-4 letters like "sfhj".

Maybe a hidden forum for new users where you have to do a captcha-like thing before you can post elsewhere could filter these out.

 

[Marc Radle]

There's also a bunch of spambot posting random strings of characters in the familiar Roman alphabet. Usually 2-4 letters like "sfhj".

Maybe a hidden forum for new users where you have to do a captcha-like thing before you can post elsewhere could filter these out.

I’ve wondered what those were as well