General rules for posting in a specific language?

villon's picture

Moin

Just a general question. As I was told by a forum member to please write in English only as this is an English speaking forum, I wondered if this was indeed the case. It is of course your forum with your rules, yet I don't see that I shouldn't write in another language and the rebuke has left me more than confused. I ask for clarification.

greetings

villon

BV52's picture

Hi villon,

This has been a converstation between the site admins on documentation actual rules for the forums. Currently the forums are following "general" guidelines such as:

  1. It is advisable to post in English since that is the languange the site uses. It also helps that those that do not have English as their first language to translate their post themselves. Translation sites sometimes translates incorrectly and the message might get lost in this process.
  2. It is generally not advisable to cross post in the forums. This is to help avoid confusion if in case one suggestion on another post contradics the other. Also it will help save time for the community since if someone already answered a post another person will not be answering the same question in a different thread.
  3. Spam of course is not allowed and this is the reason why all comments and new threads needs to be manually approved by one of the forum's admins.
  4. Courtesy and respect as in most conversation is a must.
  5. Discrimination of any kind (E.g. race, religion, sexual orientation) is not allowed.

These are some of the general rules that I proposed that we publish as guidelines in the forums but more pressing matters needed to be addressed. Thank your bringing this topic to light and I will reach out to the team so that we can re-open that conversation and maybe have something concrete for the forums.

-BV

villon's picture

Hello BV52,
thanks for the clarification.
Since my English skills are not really good, I have to rely on translation software. But since this seems to be a problem among the admins, please sort it out among yourselves.

greetings

villon