Posted: 4/17/2012 1:07 PM
Post subject: Forum Language Rules
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goofydylan8
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To start I am trying to write this in a way to not offend anyone but I just had to ask/post. Is there any way that the language rule of the forum could start to be enforced? I understand that not everyone speaks English and as someone that doesn't speak any language other than English I am definitely not telling anyone they have to learn the language I speak but in the last few weeks it has gotten out of hand on some of the threads. As the rule says the posts should be at very least translated to English. I know recently the language in-game rule was relaxed but posting in the forums is a different matter. I ask because lately some game threads and a lot of workbench submissions have multiple pages posted solely in a different language without an attempt at even a Google Translation posted along with it leading to having to manually go through and copy paste each post to translate it to attempt to follow the thread or not understand the majority of the discussion going on in the thread and be unable to read the submitters statements.
Posted: 4/17/2012 1:14 PM
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RachelB
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Have you tried asking people to post a translation along with their post?
Posted: 4/17/2012 1:31 PM
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goofydylan8
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rog wrote:
Have you tried asking people to post a translation along with their post?
It's in the rules to post a translation along with their post, and that wouldn't help if I don't see a thread until a day after it was made and their is already over a full page of discussion
Posted: 4/17/2012 1:40 PM
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Any submissions in particular? I also recommend you add an auto translation extension to your browser. Since the world wide web is world wide after all, being able to read all languages in your browser is a must.
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Posted: 4/17/2012 1:53 PM
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goofydylan8
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Nach wrote:
Any submissions in particular? I also recommend you add an auto translation extension to your browser. Since the world wide web is world wide after all, being able to read all languages in your browser is a must.
Not as bad as some but feos' and fisker N.'s Chip n' Dale 2 runs. I have one, but it doesn't always work as Opera's browser extensions' sort of suck in comparison to other browsers. When the full site is not in English it auto-translates but when majority is in English it almost never does and acts up when I try. I am most likely overreacting but it was just frustrating trying to follow anything in the threads that I had a solid amount of interest in when the extension was acting up or when I was on a school computer.
Posted: 4/18/2012 12:45 AM
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I've been lax to enforce it, because we want to encourage submissions any way possible. Its best not to piss off, or rule-lawyer people generating legit content for the site.
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Posted: 4/18/2012 3:36 AM
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feos
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At first we translated what we were saying to fisker and what he posted. But as it was his own submission, and as he knows nothing in English, and keeps writing in Russian, we just thought it would be too much work to translate everything. These 2 threads are directly related to him. There's no other thread where we do that. Dylan, I never posted in Russian when I was talking to you directly. You could just remind me to tell you, what's being discussed by us. But you just left the thread, while I posted rather interesting stuff after that.
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Posted: 4/18/2012 4:00 AM
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goofydylan8
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feos wrote:
At first we translated what we were saying to fisker and what he posted. But as it was his own submission, and as he knows nothing in English, and keeps writing in Russian, we just thought it would be too much work to translate everything. These 2 threads are directly related to him. There's no other thread where we do that. Dylan, I never posted in Russian when I was talking to you directly. You could just remind me to tell you, what's being discussed by us. But you just left the thread, while I posted rather interesting stuff after that.
I wasn't annoyed by your responses being in Russian at all, sorry if it seemed that way. Really it was just me whining. It blows mind how many people on this site and in general are so good at multiple languages. *Especially considering I can barely write in my one known language without adding in at least one edit.