Comment only in a certain language *still* not working

  • Resolved arka1

    (@arka1)


    1 year, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I too get a lot of spam coming through.

    For example this comment:

    The Botanic Gar??????den of CSIR-Nat??????ional Botanical?????? Rese

    I have read a similar topic, but not sure how to act.

    My language of choice is Italian.

    I have left one of the spam comments in case it helps.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Contributor Torsten Landsiedel

    (@zodiac1978)

    Hi @arka1

    we use “franc” for detecting the language. On their homepage, you can paste text to see what franc would detect:
    https://wooorm.com/franc/

    In this case it seems to think it is English, because of the first English words I think.

    But we skip the check if the comment is less than 10 words (to prevent false positives) and I think that’s the problem here, as I count 5 “words” in your comment …

    All the best
    Torsten

    Thread Starter arka1

    (@arka1)

    Hi there,

    thanks for that, but I am not sure I understand… Is there anything to be done about it?

    Plugin Contributor Torsten Landsiedel

    (@zodiac1978)

    The language check does not work for such short comments and there is no filter at the moment to change this behavior.

    But you can use the RegEx feature to check for non-latin characters, like I did here (the last pattern):
    https://github.com/Zodiac1978/custom-patterns-asb

    Maybe this works better in this case.

    All the best
    Torsten

    Thread Starter arka1

    (@arka1)

    Hi,

    sorry to bother you again, but I cannot find the interface to enter the extra regex codes you suggest (I had three more spam comments of that kind today).

    Cheers.

    Plugin Contributor Torsten Landsiedel

    (@zodiac1978)

    Hi @arka1

    there is no interface for it. There is a filter you can use, to add more patterns. Antispam Bee has some patterns built in and with the filter you can add more.

    See our documentation:
    https://antispambee.pluginkollektiv.org/documentation/#antispam_bee_patterns

    The linked GitHub repository from my post above shows a plugin which adds some more patterns. If you are not aware of PHP and filter hooks, you can hire a developer to add this for you.

    You can also go with my GitHub plugin. Click on the green button and choose “Download ZIP”, which you can then install on your site. If you additionally install the Git Updater plugin from Andy Fragen, you will get updates if I release a new version for this plugin.

    I hope this helps!

    All the best
    Torsten

    Thread Starter arka1

    (@arka1)

    OK, installed. Let’s see what happens ??

    Plugin Contributor Torsten Landsiedel

    (@zodiac1978)

    Hi @arka1,

    looking at the non-latin characters in the quoted comment, it seems to be Korean (Hangul) which should be found by my add-on plugin.

    I will mark this as resolved for now. If you still have some problem, just re-open or start a new thread!

    All the best
    Torsten

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