New rule proposal: English only

submitted by mongre from self.SaidIt

Now spam bots are posting in Chinese. This is not a Chinese board and while China is asshoe, I don't mind interacting with Chinese people IN ENGLISH.

I can't expect to go to a Chinese board and see English and this board shouldn't be permitting posting in any other language than English.

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[–]StrategicTactic 14 insightful - 4 fun14 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

I disagree. I have no problems if a group wants to start a sub with a different language as it's primary. If a sub wants English to be it's language, then let it be so as well. No need for a site-wide rule.

[–]wrongthink 11 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

Then block those posters. Problem solved, and you didn't even need a nanny to do it for you.

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Åh

[–]magnora7 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

If there are non-English language subs I usually take them off of /all, but I see no reason to ban them outright and I welcome people of other languages to use saidit. But it can also be a disruption tactic to destroy the front page for genuine people who use the site, so we have to watch against that as well.

[–]mongre[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

But it can also be a disruption tactic to destroy the front page

That's what I'm talking about. It's not a different culture coming on the board trying to start a dialogue. It's usually spam, 1 post from a new user. The problem is we can't understand what they're saying so you have to trust they're not sharing detailed plans on how to kill the president or something.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe personal settings would allow one to see only subs in their languages of preference.

That would be worthwhile.

YOU speak mainly or only English, but many of us also speak other languages and desire interacting outside YOUR language of choice.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

I agree.

English only, everyone else out.

Terfs claim s/all for England, St George and Her Majestic Lizardness.

[–]rdh2121 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with you in that I think SaidIt should stay English only for now, but I think the main issue is one of moderation and avoiding spam. Eventually I think it would be great for SaidIt to become a multilingual online forum, but that will only work once the infrastructure to support it is in place.

[–]blowininthewind 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

where? there are ways to filter spam in foreign languages as there are certain patterns to them. unless they hook up some modern language model to their bot.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I haven't seen any chinese lately...

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Hey Dio!

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hi

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

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Why yes, i speak engrish.