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A comment on Ask HN: Why are all non-English submissions flagged?.

Re:Ask HN: Why are all non-English submissions flagged? by leoedin on Friday August 06, 2021 @09:10AM (#28086648)
Back when I ran a fairly large forum we had to ban non-English content simply because we couldn't understand it, and so couldn't moderate it.

I'm guessing that's a big part of it - How do the HN moderators distinguish the credibility of a non-English news source? How can they determine if it's flame bait? How can they determine if it's legal or not?

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Re:Ask HN: Why are all non-English submissions flagged? by eesmith on Friday August 06, 2021 @09:26AM (#28086831)
If I see a submission in a foreign language, I'll paste it into Google Translate and flag if obviously off-topic.

Most of the non-English links I've checked are obviously off-topic, like "how to find a dentist in <city>".

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