Chinese Spam Bot Issue

Finn · Aug 9, 2016

Dear Blackhatworld,

why dont you just disable/block chinese letters on this forum ?

1. Only english is allowed to talk here anyways.

2. This way spam bots couldnt create these massive thread amounts.

3. I see they always use chinese letters in thread title and content.

Egon-olsen · Aug 9, 2016

Good thread! Every day at the same time this chinese spam bots just spams the main page with worthless threads.
And nobody can't even read it. So I would also like BHW to dissable non english characters.

davids355 · Aug 9, 2016

Sounds like it makes sense but probably admins have already thought of it and maybe it's not as easy as it sounds.

Deleted member 657006 · Aug 9, 2016

Totally agree so simple to do.

I no for a fact the programmer can do this easly.

Php example

Both these regexes should do it:

$str = preg_replace('~[^a-z0-9]+~i','', $str);
Or:

$str = preg_replace('~[^a-zA-Z0-9]+~','', $str);

Finn · Aug 9, 2016

davids355 said:
Sounds like it makes sense but probably admins have already thought of it and maybe it's not as easy as it sounds.

To disable all non english charachters on the board shouldnt be rocket science.

CRT · Aug 9, 2016

This should definitely be implemented. It sucks when over half the posts on the homepage are chinese spam. Another idea is you need x amount of post replies before being allowed to create a new thread?

Finn · Aug 9, 2016

CRT said:
This should definitely be implemented. It sucks when over half the posts on the homepage are chinese spam. Another idea is you need x amount of post replies before being allowed to create a new thread?

Glad you like my idea buddy. Lets see what MODS will answer when reading my thread

BassTrackerBoats · Aug 9, 2016

But we make them disappear so fast usually...

Finn · Aug 9, 2016

BassTrackerBoats said:
But we make them disappear so fast usually...

Hello BassTrackerBoats, I respect you but thats not a solution of the problem in my opinion.

Tell me one good reason why we should keep allowing chinese letters on the board please?

To disable non english charachters would solve the spam bot issue so thats something which should be considered.

BassTrackerBoats · Aug 9, 2016

Finn said:
Hello BassTrackerBoats, I respect you but thats not a solution of the problem in my opinion.

Tell me one good reason why we should keep allowing chinese letters on the board please?

To disable non english charachters would solve the spam bot issue.

My post was more tongue in cheek than anything.

You've posted in the correct forum and the guys that make those decisions and adjustments will surely see it.

Finn · Aug 9, 2016

BassTrackerBoats said:
My post was more tongue in cheek than anything.

You've posted in the correct forum and the guys that make those decisions and adjustments will surely see it.

Oh okay since I am not a native I didnt get the joke at first, sorry lol.

Thank you for your reply glad you reaching out!

zacatictac · Aug 9, 2016

it's been a while since I have used Xenforo but they have some pretty great spam reduction plugins. Also I think you can use wildcards in the blocked phrases settings to block out Chinese characters and put any posts using them into the mod queue.

davids355 · Aug 9, 2016

Finn said:
To disable all non english charachters on the board shouldnt be rocket science.

Maybe you are right. I'm just thinking that to run this big forum the admins must be pretty smart when it comes to hosting etc.

If it was really easy I'm trying to think why wouldn't they have already done it; which makes me think there must be some factors we don't know about.

Maybe not though, maybe they just haven't thought of it.

zacatictac · Aug 9, 2016

According to this Xenforo help thread its as simple as adding wildcards to the spam phrases section in the backend: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/spam-phrases-and-blocking-chinese-spam.111721/

Floopa75 · Aug 9, 2016

I am 1/256th Chinese and I find this post offensive.

BassTrackerBoats · Aug 9, 2016

Floopa75 said:
I am 1/256th Chinese and I find this post offensive.

My day is made; I can now go to sleep.

UptonGoodwin · Aug 11, 2016

Instead of trying to filter out characters, can't we just put a limit on how many threads new posters can can create in a day/hour?

monnoname · Aug 11, 2016

yeah, nice thread and suggestion.
they're freaking annoying!!

They appear pretty frequently,
so I guess there should be more ways to block them as members above suggested, (non-English prevention or plugin) not only making it disappear fast

tokokipiani · Aug 11, 2016

UptonGoodwin said:
Instead of trying to filter out characters, can't we just put a limit on how many threads new posters can can create in a day/hour?

This solution sounds pretty good

monnoname · Aug 11, 2016

UptonGoodwin said:
Instead of trying to filter out characters, can't we just put a limit on how many threads new posters can can create in a day/hour?

vote for this too.
it can also prevent other manual spammers too

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