But I've just clicked one neat way to get rid of Chinese spam - block individual Chinese characters! As parts of the site, such as the French Chainki are not allowed anything but French links (and generally French descriptions), it is clearly spam whenever anybody tries to enter Chinese characters into an edit.
Soooo...I have started to add simply random Chinese characters to the spam filter! The funny thing is that I have absolutely no idea what any of the characters I am banning mean, but it is (I think) likely to be highly effective in stopping Chinese spam. Here is a list of characters I have banned so far, all of which have been copy-pasted completely at random from Chinese spam text I have found on my site (apologies if any of these are swear words!!):
- 雅
- 思
- 培
- 另
- 天
- 可
- 来
- 不
- 关
- 个
- 出
- 司
- 中
Chinese spam? - Bring it on!
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