I am admittedly a bit of computer dunce and may not even understand the answers, but I will ask the questions anyhow. Recently (including today, right now) there have been dozens of spam posts all appearing together overnight on the TUG BBS with mostly Chinese characters, but with some English usually included somewhere in the thread title. My questions:
What is it about the new XenForo software that attracts / allows / facilitates these "Chinese invasions"? Certainly easy enough to ignore and report, and quite promptly and effectively dealt with by the ever-capable TUG Gurus, but...
How or why would such a spamming effort even be undertaken --- in Chinese --- in the first place? Why bother to spam in a foreign language which is completely indecipherable to almost everyone seeing that spam? What am I missing here?
What is it about the new XenForo software that attracts / allows / facilitates these "Chinese invasions"? Certainly easy enough to ignore and report, and quite promptly and effectively dealt with by the ever-capable TUG Gurus, but...
How or why would such a spamming effort even be undertaken --- in Chinese --- in the first place? Why bother to spam in a foreign language which is completely indecipherable to almost everyone seeing that spam? What am I missing here?
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