Have you ever seen members of an English speaking forum posting in other languages? How do you feel about that? As a staff member how would you moderate posts in a language you cannot understand and how would you deal with these posts if you see them as problem?
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Have you ever seen members of an English speaking forum posting in other languages?
To be honest, I have never seen this. I have seen people from other countries where English is not their native language doing the best they can to type in English. I must say, there are times where it's difficult to understand what they are typing but I give them a lot of credit for trying.
To be honest, I have never seen this. I have seen people from other countries where English is not their native language doing the best they can to type in English. I must say, there are times where it's difficult to understand what they are typing but I give them a lot of credit for trying.
I don't think I have ever ran into this situation before. I suppose if there was more than one member who spoke (for example) German, they could start up a "German chit chat" thread and talk with each other in their native language there in that one topic. I wouldnt have a problem with that. But if it happened all over the board in several topics, members would get confused and annoyed in no time.
I've seen people posting in other languages often enough, even some on here. It can be very useful, because of what Jazzy said: If a member is asking for help with something and their English isn't very good it'd be useful for another member to help them in their own language.
The only thing I would point out, is that it could be a way to circumvent other forum rules. Discussion of illegal activities and such. To make sure, you'd need to either know the language, or use an online translator (which all suck)
I've done it in the past with other ppl from Belgium/Holland. Not whole posts, just a little joke in Dutch. TBH whole posts or topics I wouldn't tolerate, a forum is a community and there's no need to exclude people from other countries. But small things, like an inside joke or something shouldn't be a problem depending on how laid back the forum is.
Da, jesam. Evo baš sad neki Smiley ovdje posta na svom materinjem jeziku. Prasac jedan bezobrazni.
Uuumm... It hurts when IP?
I'm fine with that, as long as people don't do it all over the place. I mean, if you want to speak in your native language, wouldn't it be better to just find a forum from your own country, where everyone speaks your native language?
I'd run them through some online translator. I know they're not accurate, but I'd get at least some general idea what the participants are talking about, and work from there.
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