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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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In my (geographically-based) community, people legitimately post links to all sorts of external stuff -- restaurants, retail stores, other blogging sites, newspaper and magazine articles, Wikipedia, Yelp, Chowhound, you name it.
If I had to personally moderate all of this activity, it would be overwhelming and I'd have to step down as a maintainer. It would also very much disrupt the free flow of commenting activity.
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Edit: Oh yes, and the whitelist currently only effects entries and not comments. Again, some toggles as to which links to allow or not would be good.
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I've seen loads of SPAM, but though there's a lot of Cyrillic SPAM currently, most of what I've seen over years here has been English...
I agree that each community should be able to set rules and enforce them. But I also agree that this suggestion unfairly targets Russians (and other users of the Cyrillic alphabet)...
I can see potential benefits in being able to filter out entries based on languages, but suspect that's still a major amount of work to achieve. (I can't speak to it, being unfamiliar with what sort of coding it would require.)
At this point in time, I'll agree with the majority and say no. I get what you'd like to accomplish, SPAM-wise, but this doesn't seem like a good way to get there...
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I belong to plenty of primarily English communities that have posters that have another language as their primary. While many of these posters have better command of English than native speakers, many are in the process of learning English and are using their shared community interest to expand their skills while broadening their LJ experience.
I also find that when someone is struggling with the right words in English in these comms that other comm members regardless of language step up and help them make their request or statement. This is part of what building community is about.
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