Comment 65 for bug 1614403

> That is bad enough, but understandable because our
> community does not have somebody who could lead and
> moderate an Asian sub community. Maybe that person
> shows up eventually though.

Such a person has to be in contact with the english community. So if one asks for an asian sub community he will do that in english. A 'non-latin filter' could then also be deactivated.

> Actively excluding everybody writing in a non Latin based language sends the message that we do not want such people, which is incorrect and quite harsh.

I did not talk about excluding, just hide the post as we do now, showing a message to the user that posts are moderated and have to be reviewed. I don't think that a user feels that this is incorrect and harsh.

Don't know if you knew about the last asian spam attack last Tuesday with 170 new topics in one hour? Only after deleting the user(s) the spamming stops. The hidden asian posts found now were recognized because i modified our keyword spamfilter and the result was only 5 new topics from 5 new users. I am sure if i didn't added the keyword, there were much more spams in asian language today.

By the way, the used usernames for the last two spam attacks have the same schema. For each attack session a username in form of 4 random characters with a number from 1 to 5. Eg. first attack on Monday the usernames 'gkfk[1-5]' are used. We may could find a good rule for valid usernames also?