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The problem which is constantly growing in various sections are non-english posts appearing everywhere, which technically breaks the rules of the forum (It's an English-spoken Forum, right?).
So I thought, that even though there is a location section underneath the profile, maybe it would be possible to add like a little, but visible, country flags and people would be able to select the languages they speak? That way it might be possible to, at least, lower the amount of non-english posts and people, who are smart enough, would understand from the flags that the person can speak in their language and is willing to help them out.
On top of what, the user itself would decide if the wants to add the language he speaks or not and if he does, couple country flags appears near location or somewhere in between? I think up to 3 country flags would be perfect, since people who speaks over 5 different languages are not that many and to say "hello" in 20+ languages even I could do.
Looking at the positive side, there are a good-will people who might help and this would be another way for them to get private messages in regards to certain questions, which are in their own language. There is quite a big amount of people who are trying to learn and posting things in 25 languages is simply not possible, but it would be good that it would be clear who speaks in specific languages and forum would encourage the interaction and help-seeking between it's user, rather than constantly fishing who could help in their own language without google translating every word or spamming a non-english threads and getting warnings.
It might not be a super productive, but it will definitely would be an effective thing to have or consider a similar alternative. Of course encouragement of learning English is always best, but sometimes it doesn't work well.
To point out couple things:
1. Pure guess, but most likely, just 30% (roughly) users are using their own countries as a location.
2. A non-english speaking person (as silly as it may sound) might not understand their own country name written in English and just coz they used google translate to register wouldn't help either.
So I thought, that even though there is a location section underneath the profile, maybe it would be possible to add like a little, but visible, country flags and people would be able to select the languages they speak? That way it might be possible to, at least, lower the amount of non-english posts and people, who are smart enough, would understand from the flags that the person can speak in their language and is willing to help them out.
On top of what, the user itself would decide if the wants to add the language he speaks or not and if he does, couple country flags appears near location or somewhere in between? I think up to 3 country flags would be perfect, since people who speaks over 5 different languages are not that many and to say "hello" in 20+ languages even I could do.
Looking at the positive side, there are a good-will people who might help and this would be another way for them to get private messages in regards to certain questions, which are in their own language. There is quite a big amount of people who are trying to learn and posting things in 25 languages is simply not possible, but it would be good that it would be clear who speaks in specific languages and forum would encourage the interaction and help-seeking between it's user, rather than constantly fishing who could help in their own language without google translating every word or spamming a non-english threads and getting warnings.
It might not be a super productive, but it will definitely would be an effective thing to have or consider a similar alternative. Of course encouragement of learning English is always best, but sometimes it doesn't work well.
To point out couple things:
1. Pure guess, but most likely, just 30% (roughly) users are using their own countries as a location.
2. A non-english speaking person (as silly as it may sound) might not understand their own country name written in English and just coz they used google translate to register wouldn't help either.