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New Rule: English only

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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:49:18


I think it's pretty hypocritical that people are automatically calling this racist, when language has nothing to do with race. Anyone can speak English, it just takes a little practice, no matter what race you are. So who's the racist? The policy-makers making policy without consideration to race, or those who try to make it a matter of race?

And if you're not an English-speaker, why are you on an English-speaking website? How can you possibly enjoy it if you do not understand the language with which it's users communicate? It doesn't make any sense.


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:50:08


At 8/7/06 03:44 PM, Stretchysumo wrote:
It's not rascist. It's only because most bbs users don't speak other languages. If someone doesn't understand a language that someone's speaking, how do they know what they're saying?

I suppose I was bieng naive, look a couple of posts down and you'll see that I changed what I was saying

my God I'm getting stupid.

Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:50:17


At 8/7/06 03:48 PM, N-Antichrist wrote: Obviously, make exceptions for those people in C+C who have country-based clubs.

but yeah, English is nice ;)

and one last thing, put it in the official rules

that is all

Well that's clearly not happening: http://www.newground../topic.php?id=180579

Also, making exceptions for them makes no sense. Why can't this problem occur within those threads? What's stopping it?

Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:51:00


Even though I don't care for this rule personally, I still feel it's a good rule. Like how I wish I could murder people, but it's still a good idea for that anti-murder law to be in effect.

However, I don't think that you should just ban people that wont post in English, you should also ban people that refuse to post in legible English. I don't like reading posts that are just as hard to understand as posts written in a foriegn language.

This:
"illuminati how else can a dumb ass like bush get re elected oh and the fact that 9/11 was not down to osama bin laden its too hard to explain but basically the plane was a holigram but inside the holigram was a missile with a laser on it which cut the hole before the missile entered so that the missile wouldnt explode on impact with the wall also there were bombs under the building just watch the way it falls also a plane did not crash into the pentagon it was a missile coz there was no plane wreckage and the military were seen carrying off a cigar shaped object under a blue cloth"

is something I came across earlier today. If poeple like this were banned, not because of his beliefs, but because of his inablity to put his point across, the BBS would be a much better place.

Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:51:39


At 8/7/06 03:46 PM, 7887_tabs wrote

if most of the people on here speak french in the future. does that mean that we wouldn't be allowed to speak english anymore?

That's not goign to happen and you know it. Newgrounds.com is a USA website, the site is in English, the majority of our visitors and read and write in English. People who come to the forums can read and write in English, or they wouldn't bother coming here. They simply choose to speak in another language. It isn't like a bunch of people will no longer be able to use the forums, they just have to use English instead of another language, which they can do. We aren't isolating anyone that's already here.


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:51:40


At 8/7/06 03:34 PM, -Marine237- wrote:
At 8/7/06 03:33 PM, theabominablematt wrote: I wish I knew how to say "That's sounds like a great idea Wade" in Irish.

ah well.
We have a language?

are you joking??? if not then yes.. its Gaelic

Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:52:54


At 8/7/06 03:43 PM, West_CoastShadow wrote:
nstead he's asking that mexicans type in english
Your being stereotypical by assuming that everybody who knows how to write or speak spanish that they are mexican your wrong im not mexican to get that out of the way.

I never made any assumption that all spanish speaking folk are mexican, I merely used one particular RACE to point out this isn't a racist act.

You, however, are LOOKING to be offended so you can get on your spanish soap box and cry for attention because you were abused.

allow me to add some spanish of my own though that I think we can all agree on

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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:53:07


At 8/7/06 03:51 PM, 73hC010n31 wrote: is something I came across earlier today. If poeple like this were banned, not because of his beliefs, but because of his inablity to put his point across, the BBS would be a much better place.

I agree. We need to update the rules, and I'll be sure that's addressed. Posts like that just piss people off and ruin the flow of a topic.


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:53:17


Good rule. About time it was implemented. Not only do language/origin based topics segregate themselves from other users, it also harvests hatred toward users who can't understand the language. I can understand a club based around a generic topic of interest, like gaming, but something so vague and open as someone's origin can only go so far before it's spam. NG does have a chat room where friends should be able to stay in touch, not to mention the newly implemented PMs.


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:53:32


Solution:

Hire a multicultural staff.

Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:53:33


When in Rome, do as the Romans. When on Newgrounds, shut up and do what Wade says.


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:53:52


At 8/7/06 03:44 PM, Pinkasaurus wrote: You can communicate easily through signals. Just point at the food you want... its really not that hard. So a bad example there

Sadly, some resturants do that. Just have a bog poster of food and they point to it and pay the ammount they see on the cash register. It's supposed to get them more customers. I think McDonalds does that, but I'm not sure.


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:54:25


Just like the douche bags who won't let people sing the National anthem in spanish. I'm fucking honored that they would do it.

As pertaining to this matter, we should be open to all languages, and all types. If anything, we should mod a few of the people that speak many languages, as so they can translate everything, instead of just dis-allowing it.


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:54:33


At 8/7/06 03:43 PM, -wwwyzzerdd- wrote:
At 8/7/06 03:29 PM, WadeFulp wrote: We do not want Newgrounds.com's image to be tainted because there are topics and posts saying who knows what in a language we don't understand.
Well thank god that the site will now be tainted by intolerance and ignorance.
Also, if I cannot speak English, how do you expect for me to read your post?

this isn't the case. There has been a club that abused their power to speak in french to be racist and hateful towards english people and other users.
the mods speak english, so they can't moderate a thread that they dont understand, so this club has gotten away with a lot of breaking the rules due to that.
If they hadn't abused their power to speak another language and listened to warnings this wouldnt have had to take place, but since they did that, they ruined it for all the other members who wants/wanted to speak another language or their first language etc...

making racist and hateful remarks in any language is still against the rules, but no one could even tell they were since most mods can only speak english. So this is the results of them abusing their knowledge of another language.

this new rule isnt "racist" or "ignorant", just the unfortunate of a group of people who had to ruin it for everyone else.


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Me made simple: well you already thought as far as holding a chicken while in your underwear

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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:54:38


Still people have to stop calling anybody who speaks spanish mexicans.


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:55:21


This topic and the one about the SA forums just reminded me, is there a reason some parts of the NG rules are almost identical to the SA rules?


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:56:00


At 8/7/06 03:53 PM, -munchies wrote: Solution:

Hire a multicultural staff.

Riiight. Hey, a new Yiddish club opened up, time to mod a Yiddish speaking user. GTFO.


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:57:32


ZIS IS REDICOLUS!

I coem to grate countray of amerikca lookinkg for peace and cheeseburgers, BUT INSTAD I FIND ZIS WADE FOLP SAYINKG I CANNUT SPAEK ZE WUNDERFULL LAUNGUEGE OF FRENCH!

How dare you sir.

I vill kiss you becuase I am french.

Tickle my mustache.

Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:57:45


At 8/7/06 03:55 PM, Fatboy_ wrote: This topic and the one about the SA forums just reminded me, is there a reason some parts of the NG rules are almost identical to the SA rules?

this topic is being enforced from experience which had been reported recently due to current events.
I dont see why SA is related to a problem we had to fix atm


RoseSOAS: you should know i dont think this far ahead

Me made simple: well you already thought as far as holding a chicken while in your underwear

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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:57:50


At 8/7/06 03:54 PM, ShitOnAStick wrote: At 8/7/06 03:43 PM, -wwwyzzerdd- wrote::

There has been a club that abused their power to speak in french...
OMFG!!!!I can speak french!I have super powers!All shall bow before my french speaking powernesness

Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:58:21


I'll just pretend I didn't see that.

Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:58:52


What about clubs that weren't so much posting in just a foreign language, but were trying to learn one together and were posting ABOUT it in English? Like I think Lin mentioned a Japanese club or something.


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:59:12


The main reason for this is we don't want people making racial insults, talking about piracy, making bombs, etc. I'm sure you can all think of things that we wouldn’t want people talking about on OUR site. We don't want to be liable for something like that if it's left go because we can't interpret their text. It simply comes down to protecting Newgrounds.com, so anyone who is a fan of Newgrounds.com should support us trying to protect the site. We have nothing against people who speak a different language, but we need to be able to understand and interpret the content being posted on OUR site. Some of you are quick to give us shit, but if it was your ass on the line, your family's future in jeopardy, you might have a different view on the matter. If someone wants to put my family in jeopardy, Tom's, the rest of the NG staff, and all our Flash artists, by ruining the site, I will take you down. Some of you need to wake the fuck up and understand this.


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:59:13


At 8/7/06 03:55 PM, Fatboy_ wrote: This topic and the one about the SA forums just reminded me, is there a reason some parts of the NG rules are almost identical to the SA rules?

Because good rules make sense.


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:59:17


At 8/7/06 03:57 PM, ZeManlyFrenchMan wrote: ZIS IS REDICOLUS!

Yeah, but it isn't funny because you're an alt, and it seems like you're pissing off the French, rather than even try to act like one.

Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:59:38


At 8/7/06 03:57 PM, ZeManlyFrenchMan wrote: ZIS IS REDICOLUS!

I coem to grate countray of amerikca lookinkg for peace and cheeseburgers, BUT INSTAD I FIND ZIS WADE FOLP SAYINKG I CANNUT SPAEK ZE WUNDERFULL LAUNGUEGE OF FRENCH!

How dare you sir.

I vill kiss you becuase I am french.

Tickle my mustache.

That sounds like you have more of a german accent

Auf wiedsien (however the fuck you spell it.)


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 15:59:41


At 8/7/06 03:58 PM, Nino_JoJ wrote: I'll just pretend I didn't see that.

That's what the Quebec club did. Now the club is deleted. We've vowed that anyone who ignores us and the rules in the future will be banned.

Are you sure that's a wise choice?


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 16:00:36


So, does this mean the end of different nationality based clubs and crews?


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Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 16:00:44


returns to a normal state of mind
Now really,I don't think is such a big deal.If someone posts in a language you don't understand just use a online translator/dictionary or ask someone who can speak that language to translate it to you.

Response to New Rule: English only 2006-08-07 16:00:53


At 8/7/06 03:59 PM, Evark wrote:
At 8/7/06 03:58 PM, Nino_JoJ wrote: I'll just pretend I didn't see that.
That's what the Quebec club did. Now the club is deleted. We've vowed that anyone who ignores us and the rules in the future will be banned.

Are you sure that's a wise choice?

well, I was kidding, in case you didn't notice. wah