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You know, I didn't know the whole thing about English, having never read the rules before. (I know, it says that I posted them, but that's an illusion. Illusion I say!)

It makes sense, but in the modern age also sounds kind of mean. Still, we should stick with it if we can. If anyone has something to say but has trouble expressing it in English, please feel free to send me an email at power_dale@yahoo.com and I'll do my best to help with it!

Thanks!

I didn't see that rule either. Seems a bit harsh if they are a fan and just trying to state they're opinion. As long as there are no links to somewhere else in a post I also will try to translate if I can. Google translate does wonders!

I don't think it's all that harsh. The people here are mostly native English speakers from America or Canada. If you want a post to be understood and to receive a reply then that post should be in the language understood by the group. The immediate deletion is a bit much, but understandable.

What would be cool is if you could pass the the post to Google translate (if the person is outside of US, Canada, UK, etc) to perform a language detect and automatic translation to English with the translation appended to their post.

It's kind of a moot point, never saw anyone posting in anything except in English (outside of spam).

It's not an unreasonable request, but on the other hand I don't see that someone would be banned for doing so in reality, I just wouldn't read it, mostly because I wouldn't be able to.

Hey Argy and Dale, I don't think we should penalize the rest of the world because they don't understand common, standard English. Does Amazon offer translated books to non-english speaking readers? They should! I know Dale isn't a mean person. There are so many people beyond these borders that deserve good reading. Basically, I'm saying don't give up on the idea of a translatable forum, although it may not be needed right now. Its the humane thing to do.