I tried to comment on this answer, but The System told me "Comments cannot contain that content."
Why not!? Can we enable "that content"?
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"that content" means Japanese character?– Jorge B. ModCommented Aug 7, 2015 at 10:55
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1@JorgeB. Yes, in this case it means Unicode character U+67FF, but in other cases it might mean a whole range of other Unicode characters. I'm asking if we can allow them in comments, because I don't see any harm in allowing them (and I'm hoping my intended comment shows this).– EarthliŋCommented Aug 7, 2015 at 10:58
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We've had some persistent Chinese spammers across the network, so we introduced a global block on Chinese characters (on sites where we don't expect such characters to normally appear).
Given that the block was only hit 3 times here since introduction and that Brazil has a large Japanese community, I have lifted the block here.
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the message is absolutely cryptic. But maybe there are strong reasons behind that obscurity, that I don't know about. Do you think it would be a waste of time for me to try to open (yet another) meta.SE discussion on improving it? (The only discussions I found are always either related to links only, or sidetracked about the links.)– ANevesCommented Aug 7, 2015 at 14:22
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@ANeves - consider that is the message were not cryptic, it would give potential spammers a clue as to how to overcome the block...– Oded StaffCommented Aug 7, 2015 at 14:35
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I read that as "pretty much", so I won't bother. Thanks for answering.– ANevesCommented Aug 7, 2015 at 15:16
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Thank you! (Just curious, 3 times comments by "Chinese spammers" or 3 times me trying to submit my comment? I thought the "Comment Everywhere" privilege was to avoid such spam. I guess your Chinese spammers got past this with the association bonus...?)– EarthliŋCommented Aug 7, 2015 at 18:23
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@Earthliŋ - can't really distinguish the two, but on the assumption that one or more were you...– Oded StaffCommented Aug 7, 2015 at 18:34
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