我们的中文论坛应该禁止使用英语吗？(Should English be banned from the Chinese Forum?)

Zhoudan wrote:

这种问题以前在单位里上班倒是经常遇到。办公室里有个同事特爱打小报告，经常无中生有，弄得人很不愉快。这些年做了freelance，这种事情再也没有了。真是太好了！

TongliUSA wrote:

I heard that in the French and Italian forums, the similar complaints were filed. In those forums, they believe it was very rude for someone just walks in and starts to talk in a language that is not the designated language such as French or Italian.
Kevin


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Lesley McLachlan wrote:

1 A 'preferred language option' facility might help with this problem of unwanted intrusions.

It would be a way to help topic posters (if they wanted to) to deal with people who 'butt in' on their conversations in another language without reading what has gone before in detail. I have been guilty of doing this.

2 How should we treat the topic poster? As a thread host? I think this is right, because all the comments are sent to the poster's email inbox.

3 Giving the option might change the dynamic a bit, making the postings a bit more personalised, more like Kudoz. Would that be a good thing, or not.

4 Moving on from that, perhaps we could have a Trad Chinese moderator and/or a Cantonese moderator for the Chinese community. It would make it more diverse.

Lesley McLachlan wrote:



1 A 'preferred language option' facility might help with this problem of unwanted intrusions.

It would be a way to help topic posters (if they wanted to) to deal with people who 'butt in' on their conversations in another language without reading what has gone before in detail. I have been guilty of doing this.

2 How should we treat the topic poster? As a thread host? I think this is right, because all the comments are sent to the poster's email inbox.

3 Giving the option might change the dynamic a bit, making the postings a bit more personalised, more like Kudoz. Would that be a good thing, or not.

4 Moving on from that, perhaps we could have a Trad Chinese moderator and/or a Cantonese moderator for the Chinese community. It would make it more diverse.

Lesley McLachlan wrote:

Give topic posters/thread hosts a 'preferred language' option.
Bring it down to topic/thread level and provide a 'preferred language' option (like Kudoz)




Kudoz Askers have the facility to nominate "Language preferred for answer explanations". (See the last/bottom box of the Kudoz asking screen.) I think that is really good, even though a lot of us don't use it. It's available for those that want it.

Perhaps topic posters/thread hosts could be given this option too. Why not.

I guess it might have to be a new facility applying to all forums, or perhaps it could be arranged just for the 'non-English' forums. Perhaps the management could comment on what is possible.

I think it might be a really good thing for the non-English forums and communities.

It would give the topic posters a chance to name their preference, and to have some influence over the language of the comments received in their email inbox.

And it would be consistent with Kudoz.

I suggest this be posted as another topic...

[Edited at 2007-01-03 00:15]

Enrique Cavalitto wrote:

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I want to make clear that this is not the case. Kevin is a great moderator and of course English can be used in this forum.

I believe the site needs a better definition of the way this rule is to be applied, probably with different criteria for the common forums (where English is the official language) and the non-English ones (where the approach should be more open).