# How to block a spam attack?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-block-a-spam-attack/31255>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [21 Luglio 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-block-a-spam-attack/31255 "2015-07-21T14:45:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [27 Settembre 2016, 10:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-block-a-spam-attack/31255/10 "2016-09-27T10:22:45Z")

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The Korean bamwar human spammers are still around and still pernicious enough to be effective even with fast typist and Akismet checking and new user post limits and IP limits. @sam will add language specific site settings (we need this for all uppercase checks and other stuff anyway) to make sure the common thread of Korean text is a huge red flag for a new user post.

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