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Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 5:57 pm**

nartreb wrote:Check the forums (General and Gear tabs so far) for a wave of Korean spam from users with what look like randomly-generated usernames.

Yes. Somehow those jerks are getting around the approval process.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 6:35 pm**

Scott wrote:Yes. Somehow those jerks are getting around the approval process.

I recently changed the registration process again to make it harder for bots to automatically register and when I did that I eliminated the manual approval process for accounts. So these guys are spending the human time to get past the CAPTCHA in order to use a bot to automatically spam. Annoying. But I think it's more annoying for new users to have to wait sometimes days to get their account approved. So we'll deal with the spam when it happens.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 6:49 pm**

Montana Matt wrote:
Scott wrote:Yes. Somehow those jerks are getting around the approval process.

I recently changed the registration process again to make it harder for bots to automatically register and when I did that I eliminated the manual approval process for accounts. So these guys are spending the human time to get past the CAPTCHA in order to use a bot to automatically spam. Annoying. But I think it's more annoying for new users to have to wait sometimes days to get their account approved. So we'll deal with the spam when it happens.

Is there a way to auto-ban any posts with certain Korean or Chinese characters in it?

I know some websites do this, but I don't know how it is done.

All the mass spammers are from Korea and China it seems. I don't think we have ever had valid forum posts using those characters.

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2018 3:12 am**

Please delete https://www.summitpost.org/users/zitablanc/143627

She sent me a pm that started out "Good day dearest one," and it went on from there about how she wanted me to help her invest in my country.

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2018 2:22 pm**

Scott wrote:
Montana Matt wrote:
Scott wrote:Yes. Somehow those jerks are getting around the approval process.

I recently changed the registration process again to make it harder for bots to automatically register and when I did that I eliminated the manual approval process for accounts. So these guys are spending the human time to get past the CAPTCHA in order to use a bot to automatically spam. Annoying. But I think it's more annoying for new users to have to wait sometimes days to get their account approved. So we'll deal with the spam when it happens.

Is there a way to auto-ban any posts with certain Korean or Chinese characters in it?

I know some websites do this, but I don't know how it is done.

All the mass spammers are from Korea and China it seems. I don't think we have ever had valid forum posts using those characters.

Or require a Captcha to complete a post that contains suspicious characters. I know we sometimes have legit posts about Chinese and Korean mountains, and I'm pretty sure I've used a Chinese character or two myself.