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Re:Longtime Mozilla Support Japanese Community Shuts Down ov... by rileymat2 on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @10:56PM (#45831249)
But he lists the problems? Pretty unambiguously.
Re:Longtime Mozilla Support Japanese Community Shuts Down ov... by crazygringo on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @10:57PM (#45831262)
The problems are nowhere near actionable. A lot more information is needed.

E.g. literally the first bullet: "It doesn't follow our translation guidelines". OK -- where are those guidelines? Is there a way to get it to follow them, like another commenter says works? Does the person need help following the process for that? Or is there a bug? Etc.

These are the things a call can clarify. It's the necessary first step, so why are people complaining?

Re:Longtime Mozilla Support Japanese Community Shuts Down ov... by handoflixue on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @11:46PM (#45831591)
> where are those guidelines?

It's entirely possible that such information is well-known to everyone involved in the translation community.

I would consider it outright insulting if someone who ostensibly "wants to help" doesn't know basic information like that - if the people making decisions about SumoBot are NOT aware of basic information like "where to find the local translation guidelines" then they are presumably not qualified to release a tool like SumoBot in the first place.

Re:Longtime Mozilla Support Japanese Community Shuts Down ov... by kentm on Thursday November 06, 2025 @12:30AM (#45831822)
Yep agree with this. Nothing is more infuriating than someone Kramering into a space trying “to help” without spending any time or effort trying to understand that space.

They should have understood the guidelines before turning on their machine translation in a given locality.

Re:Longtime Mozilla Support Japanese Community Shuts Down ov... by crazygringo on Thursday November 06, 2025 @09:29AM (#45835630)
It's also entirely possible that the Japanese translation team didn't put the guidelines in the right place for the bot to follow them. Or there's a bug. Since another commenter says it's following guidelines just fine.

> I would consider it outright insulting if someone who ostensibly "wants to help" doesn't know basic information like that

Well, the person who wants to help is a customer service manager in Indonesia. They presumably are not the leader of the machine translation product. They are trying to get more information so they can, you know, escalate to the right people.

So how is that "outright insulting"?

Re:Longtime Mozilla Support Japanese Community Shuts Down ov... by kentm on Thursday November 06, 2025 @12:26AM (#45831800)
Turning off the machine translation and reverting all the changes it made seems pretty actionable to me. They can turn it back on when issues are addressed.
Re:Longtime Mozilla Support Japanese Community Shuts Down ov... by benatkin on Thursday November 06, 2025 @12:57AM (#45831950)
Indeed. Turning it off would still satisfy marsf's requests:

- I prohibit to use all my translation as learning data for SUMO bot and AIs.

- I request to remove all my translation from learned data of SUMO AIs.

Before fixing it and re-enabling it in some capacity, they could work with marsf to find a solution.

Re:Longtime Mozilla Support Japanese Community Shuts Down ov... by BrenBarn on Thursday November 06, 2025 @12:26AM (#45831802)
They are actionable by entirely canceling the machine translation operations in that community,