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Community maintainers should be able to disallow Cyrillic posts
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The maintainers of a community should be given a checkbox option that would prohibit Cyrillic-alphabet posts in the community. This would go a long way toward ending the spam problem in English-language LJ communities
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Besides, there are legitimate posts from Cyrillic users. I'd hate to think that someone's post got disallowed just because it was in a certain alphabet. The majority of the spam I've seen has been in English, anyway, so this wouldn't solve the problem of spam.
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The thing is, I'm afraid that if this suggestion were implemented, it could set a dangerous precedent for the ability to discriminate against certain groups of people on LiveJournal, just because said groups are perceived to be a larger source of spam or other unwanted posts. =/
Besides, if you disallow Cyrillic, no problem for the spammers who use the Cyrillic alphabet to just go to Babelfish and pipe their ads in there for an equivalent in a Latin alphabet! And most of the spam I've seen is in English and/or consists of links or images only.
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Pretty much this.
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The thing is, something like this would make discrimination against users of the Cyrillic alphabet part of LJ's code base and infrastructure. Basically, you're asking LJ to abet you in discriminating against those folks, whereas if you moderated membership in your community to allow only users you don't believe are spammers, that's your choice alone and not implicitly endorsed by LJ. If this makes any sense.
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Now, this doesn't mean I'm necessarily in favor of the idea, or the reasons given. But your objection is way off target.
P.S. Like the OP, I took have seen large numbers of spam posts in Cyrillic, and none in Arabic or Japanese or other scripts.
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Now, if a maintainer wants to set membership of their community to moderated (meaning, someone would have to request membership, and the maintainer has to approve or reject it), then it would be completely the maintainer's responsibility to do that. If the maintainer wants to deny membership on the basis of the alphabet that a user posts in, that would be entirely the maintainer's choice, not LJ's. But implementing an option that disallows ALL posts from a certain language/alphabet would imply that LJ endorses this kind of discrimination against certain users, whether or not the maintainer uses that option.
On the other hand, I think azurelunatic has a more sensible and less exclusionary alternative for what the OP of this post is ( ... )
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I do like azurelunatic's suggestion as well as others that have been posted here. I hope this has started a useful discussion and that something reasonable and implementable can emerge from it.
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OBJECTION!
Copyright issues notwithstanding Someone who wanted to quote or parody Kelly's "Shoes" song in an entry might trip the spam alert on that basis alone. XD
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