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For over a year I've been getting many blog comments in an Asian language that, of course, I don't understand. I've tried usingn Translate but there are many, many options and I don't have any idea which these comments are.

Recently, I changed my preferences to requiring my approval before posting. I though this might stop them, but it hasn't. I don't want to offend anyone if they are, in fact, commenting on the blog or my bears, but I'm just worried what is being said in a written language that I can't read.

Anyone else have this happening? I just deleted two more this morning.

Marlys I had that happen a couple of times and I just deleted them. Not to be rude, but if I can't understand what is written, then it doesn't stay there for anyone else to read!

I get them all the time Marlys, and delete them since I don't know what they say, (they might be really rude or offensive). 

Okay, thanks Linda. I was afraid they might be something I wouldn't want on my blog. I'm glad to know others get them, too. They must find blog addresses and then send them to everyone.

Hi Marlys - I get these all the time too (mostly Chinese - I've set up my blog to filter & approve blog posts before they're published (now I know how!) and the email advising that I have a new blog post request actually translates them into English.  I then reject them so they're not published beause in translation most of them don't make sense.

However, I do have a lovely Spanish follower who leaves me some wonderful comments - I'm happy to translate them and publish them to my blog because they are relevant to the blog post.

Hugs,

Marg

I got three today! Thanks for the info Marg, I'm glad it's rubish I'm trashing 

How did you set it up to email you a translation? I'd like that. I tried to get word varification (as I suspect most of these comments are spammy), but it wouldn't do it, so then I opted for approval which is fine, except I would like to know what they are saying, just in case there is something worthwhile. At present all I can do is delete the non-english ones.

Hi Linda - I don't remember doing anything specific.  Heck, I didn't even know you could filter those pesky blog posts until a few months ago when I found out through this site 

I use MS Outlook for my emails, but I do admit I have a Google translator widget on my blog - maybe that's how it automatically converts it into the email???   

Occasionally there's one that doesn't convert - if I feel like it I use Google translate manually (not very often), but most of the time I just reject them because they're usually rubbish and quite frankly I couldn't be bothered!!  If they're regulars like my Spanish lady, you get to recognise their blog profile or name anyway!

Hugs

Marg xoxoxo

I appreciate the discussion. When I first got these kinds of posts I tried translating, guessing Chinese, but there were several choices of Chinese. Linda, I, too, think they must be mostly spammy but I didn't want anyone, either, if they might be a relevant post.

At last Blogger has initiated a program which recognises the spammy blog comments, now ain't that a good thing?  And it WORKS!!!!!

Thanks, Linda. Guess it's better late  than never, huh?