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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 Pick-A-Hill2019 on Friday August 06, 2021 @09:20AM (#28086768)
How do you propose HN's anti-spam filters and Mod(s) check submissions? While I take your implied point about inclusiveness how many different languages do you expect the spam filters and Mods to be fluent in? One? Two? More? That opens you up to “What-About-ism”

In my opinion there is nothing wrong with a website starting up (and keeping topics and discussions) to their lingua franca. As a neutral-ish example – What if I went to a .ru forum and posted something Swahili? Chances are high that it would be flagged/deleted because Swahili is not a language they speak (the mods) and so they have no way of checking to see if it is a Viagra spam or a meaningful contribution.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are all non-English submissions flagged? by Causality1 on Friday August 06, 2021 @12:35PM (#28089515)
Yeah, somewhere around the point HN became fifty percent submissions in languages I don't speak is the point where I would stop visiting at all. I'm not going to sort through all that looking for things I'll enjoy reading.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are all non-English submissions flagged? by _Algernon_ on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:44AM (#28087846)
Most browsers (i.e. all that are based on chromium) have integrated google translate allowing for automatic translation of websites, so no mod would have to learn the languages to filter out spam.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are all non-English submissions flagged? by ksaj on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:04PM (#28090816)
I'm not picking sides, but the same argument could be made for posting the link through Google Translate so that it appears English on HN. That way dang et al don't have to do it themselves in order to moderate.
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