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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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In geographically-based communities such as the numerous Boston-area comms, all useful posts are in English, and anything posted in a non-Latin alphabet would be useless to readers even in the rare case that it is not spam.
I don't see any significant spam in Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, etc. so that's why I focussed specifically on Cyrillic.
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