I am the only one so far voting any language. :-\
I believe any language should be allowed. It's anyone's fault that they can't speak English, it's not fair. If you get annoyed, TURN GENERAL OFF. Some people think it spams up the the chat, I disagree.
Spam (Verb):
"Send the same message indiscriminately to (large numbers of recipients) on the Internet."
Being such, I believe it's not spam. They are simply talking.
I know almost everyone will disagree, but this is my opinion.
Well, I do agree with you in a sense, Ruby. But generally I would guess the majority of people speak English on FH (Correct me if I am wrong) and even if they where foreign and know how to speak English. But also, English people SPAM up general to, so generally Foreign and English speakers might HAVE to change to turning General off.
^ I wrote this quickly without a lot of thought, it might be confusing or rough.
I am the only one so far voting any language. :-\
I believe any language should be allowed. It's anyone's fault that they can't speak English, it's not fair. If you get annoyed, TURN GENERAL OFF. Some people think it spams up the the chat, I disagree.
Spam (Verb):
"Send the same message indiscriminately to (large numbers of recipients) on the Internet."
Being such, I believe it's not spam. They are simply talking.
I know almost everyone will disagree, but this is my opinion.
I am the only one so far voting any language. :-\
I believe any language should be allowed. It's anyone's fault that they can't speak English, it's not fair. If you get annoyed, TURN GENERAL OFF. Some people think it spams up the the chat, I disagree.
Spam (Verb):
"Send the same message indiscriminately to (large numbers of recipients) on the Internet."
Being such, I believe it's not spam. They are simply talking.
I know almost everyone will disagree, but this is my opinion.
I am the only one so far voting any language. :-\
I believe any language should be allowed. It's anyone's fault that they can't speak English, it's not fair. If you get annoyed, TURN GENERAL OFF. Some people think it spams up the the chat, I disagree.
Spam (Verb):
"Send the same message indiscriminately to (large numbers of recipients) on the Internet."
Being such, I believe it's not spam. They are simply talking.
I know almost everyone will disagree, but this is my opinion.
I am the only one so far voting any language. :-\^ agreed.
I believe any language should be allowed. It's anyone's fault that they can't speak English, it's not fair. If you get annoyed, TURN GENERAL OFF. Some people think it spams up the the chat, I disagree.
Spam (Verb):
"Send the same message indiscriminately to (large numbers of recipients) on the Internet."
Being such, I believe it's not spam. They are simply talking.
I know almost everyone will disagree, but this is my opinion.
But it isn't just about being annoying, it is about mods understanding what is going on. How can they do their jobs properly is they can't understand what is being said? I believe FH should be English in General chat because that is what the mods speak.
I think english only because some foreign people could be talking inappropiate to each other or about others and the Mod wouldn't know. They could try and sell something to somebody or try and scam them and the mod might not know. I have no problem with any other language I just think it should just be english so the Mods can monitor everyone who is talking.
Also it doesn't matter what language, spam should be monitored and be on the down low.
I'm not sure where I should stand in this to be honest but I did think I made a few things clear in earlier posts though.
for let's say tourism, how would I respond if some the authorities said they had to kick me out because I couldn't speak Spanish? Now, that's totally from different if I were to be screaming obscene swears and being smartass with the authorities. I know, this comparison is totally different from our FH discussion, but just an example of the similar scenario.I really think I do understand what you mean by this, it's a good way to put it. We could probably make a similar one the other way around though.
... I really dislike this.
I really dislike the results I'm seeing up there.
I feel as if this is a form of... what, discrimination? Segregation? It's like saying, "No African Americans are allowed to post in the General Chat."
I'm not saying anything against African Americans, I'm just saying that.. there are other people in this world and they might not speak English. It isn't right that they can't be allowed to talk in General. It's like saying, "Hey, you don't speak English. Either learn it or you aren't good enough to post here." It just goes against my moral code and I feel that if this is a rule that is passed... well, I'm going to lose a LOT of respect for the people that enforce it. It just isn't right.
Are you going to say it's secregation that the workers in a bank in america or Australia or england can't deal with customers that don't speak their language?I understand the thought behind this, but I don't think it really doesn't hold ground with the situation at hand. When you're in a certain country, you are expected to know its language to a certain extent of course. You go up to someone in a store and start speaking Polish in California you're going to have a very confused employee. But this game is beyond just one country, it's far more diverse than that. Anything that dips its fingers in the international community has to accept that all language needs will have to be met, that's how the game goes. Those that don't play it are typically called discriminatory and lose the respect of the international community.
I do honestly not know which side I stand on here.
But just a thinker for everyone out there no matter what.
If the users doesn't even understand the slight of the English language..
How do we know they read/understand any of the rules that exist for the game?
How do we know they actually follow the rules and terms given that everyone else must follow no matter what? Some mods and rules here are rather strict, and if they don't even understand when they're warned for an action they're doing it's 100% their cause if they end up getting kicked off the server.
It shouldn't matter if they don't understand them if everyone else that does must follow them. We can't just give them an exception, and even though I have a rather small vocabulary when it comes to other langs I catch people saying swears in other langs fairly often actually.
Maybe tolerance will be needed from some of the users in the game when it comes to other languages in the chats. Local is fine and all, but since this is general chat we're most likely talking about now I can see how both parties have a valid point.
Kicking and banning someone for speaking their language does sound wrong, but kicking and banning someone that doesn't follow the given rules doesn't. I personally think that stopping people from using the general chat in another language would be just as hard as stopping the trolling/pointless crap people write in english.
Rule for only english in general I'm not sure about if I'd like to see. But making it a situation where using the "not understand warnings" as an argument feels kinda dry to me since every user should follow the given rules even if we add a new one.