Comments in another language?

  • I got a comment that was just jibberish go through, but as I was checking it, it didn’t seem like a spam comment. I think it turned out to be a comment made in another language on my website. I ended up deleting it since I couldn’t understand it, but is there a way that I can either have it translated or something so that it doesn’t just appear to be spam?

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  • Erm, I suppose you could come up with a plugin that would allow the visitor to select a language option from a dropdown menu, which would then filter the comment through a translation script in the appropriate language, but I have no idea how you would go about doing it… As a sidenote, Bayesian translation would probably put a lot less strain on your server, imo, if this is gonna be a regular thing. ??

    Thread Starter lawtai

    (@lawtai)

    heh I don’t think it’ll be a regular thing, and I’m still not 100% sure that it wasn’t actually spam and not a legit comment in another language. Just wondering if there are anyways to really figure it out.

    Depends on what you mean by “jibberish”. Were there numerous ? and box characters and such? Then it could have been a legit post. If rather it was something like :

    fkslfmk flfefekmlfemkf lefmkelfemfklewfmkel feklmaewle

    It’s likely to be spam, or comment graffiti.

    Thread Starter lawtai

    (@lawtai)

    ah ok, then it was most likely comment grafiti. It was just interesting because the link that it had was for a college in Europe which seemed legit.

    Either that, or it’s in Welsh… ??

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