Community maintainers should be able to disallow Cyrillic posts

[ron_newman]

Title
Community maintainers should be able to disallow Cyrillic posts

Short, concise description of the idea
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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Comments

[silverflight8]

Sure. They can delete posts that are offtopic and impose any rules they like on the comm as long as it doesn't violate the ToS; LJ doesn't control communities.

[fiddlingfrog]

Because this suggestion is an automated "Go away, we don't want you here" and deleting a post after the fact is a person saying "You're not following our rules, please conform to our standards."

[ron_newman]

Maybe the option could instead be "Require CAPTCHA for Cyrillic posts".

[lady_angelina]

If you're going to require ReCAPTCHA on the basis of language, you might as well require it for ALL users. Otherwise, it's still discriminatory against Russian speakers who want to make legitimate posts.

[silverflight8]

Why can't you enable CAPTCHA for everyone, then? There is that option available now.

[silverflight8]

Oops, cute kittenlady_angelina got there first ;)

[ron_newman]

I'm looking for a spam solution that has minimal effect on non-spammers. Requiring CAPTCHA for all posts would probably drive many or most legitimate members away from a community.

[lady_angelina]

But not all spammers post their ads in the Cyrillic alphabet. As I said before, most of the spam ads I've seen are in English and/or are comprised only of links and images.

Your better bet is to moderate membership and allow only people you are sure aren't spammers to join, rather than restricting what languages entries can be posted to there.

[silverflight8]

Because it's a setting that blocks Cyrillic characters completely and altogether through coding without bothering to see what the contents are; maintainers/moderators who decide their community will speak in [language] enforce that themselves. Putting it in such bald terms: "We think all posts using Cyrillic scripts are spam," isn't a place I want to be part of, English-speaker though I am.

[splitcomplex]

For another thing, Spanish and English use the same alphabet.

[silverflight8]

They use the same script - I'll use French here as an example, since I'm more familiar: how would you tell the difference between a post that included words like "naïveté" in an English post, and one in French?

[ron_newman]

I thought that "code pages" didn't exist anymore, just Unicode character ranges. English, Spanish, French, Italian, etc. all use the same section of Unicode.