What's going on?

There seems to be a rash of disruptive trollism/spamism going on as of late. A bunch of misfits constantly changing usernames and inundating the forums with what appears to be Chinese words.
Often a particular university will be highlighted. They get deleted/banned and they reappear quickly like a mushroom patch.

Anyone know what's going on? Can it not be stopped somehow, or is DP helpless to stop it?

 

They're difficult to stop, what we need is more mods to clean that crap up quicker, @Smyrl and @sarahk do a great job, the rest of them don't do anything as far as I can tell, not mentioning any names but what's the point of a mod who hasn't been here since 2014 or one who hasn't logged in since 2015??
Sad to say but the forum's dying on it's arse, most of the decent members have gone.....

 

I'm thinking it's a member(s) with a grudge or an axe to grind. No doubt someone who got banned and didn't agree with the decision. I notice they post when there are no mods on duty. Must make for extra work having to constantly and almost daily delete/clean up their mess.

 

It's Chinese spam I doubt it has anything to do with a grudge.

 

You could be right, the posts appear to be flogging universities. What I find odd is that these universities are all over the world, not just in China. This is what lead me to believe that it was just a case of disruptive vindictiveness.

 

Yeah I've seen Australian universities being spammed all the time. It's probably some type of scam, international students pay a lot of money so would be targets.

 

They are a scam, selling fake uni diplomas, graduation certificates and bachelor degrees etc. This what the title of one of the threads translates as

 

Very good detective work! Sherlock Holmes has nothing on you.

 

Right now (7:45 am EST) it's a nightmare here. Spam filters is the way to go. Even something as simple as this will do the job:

$post = mb_strtolower($_POST['message'], 'UTF-8');
$spamw = array('成功的产品经理','内部审计与反舞弊实务','从技术走向管理','2018年时间安排','劳务派遣','特殊用工协议','实地参观','总裁论道');
foreach ($spamw as $spamwords) {
if (preg_match("/$spamwords+/u", $post)) {
    $err = 'Something went wrong. Please, try again.';
  }
}

Code (markup):

 

Could it be setup so that if a member gets reported by an established member, their posts get hidden from everyone but mods and admins pending a review of their posts by a mod or admin?

 

May God bless all conspiracy theorists.

 

@sarahk - Can we use addon like this one? https://xenforo.com/community/resources/anti-spam-by-cleantalk.3975/
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/tac-stop-human-spam.1480/
We can use stop words also is there any settings on XF so non English post can be blocked? because mostly spam is coming in different language than English.

 

THIS ^^^ is called passing the buck..............

 

Why would it be when AFAIK only @digitalpoint has access to the server?

 

You lack a sense of humor and do not comprehend sarcasm in it's most innocent form. Everyone (including me) fully understands that only @digitalpoint can make these type of alterations.

 

It didn't work:

 

Hello everyone!