User blog comment:Mak Life New/The Cold Welcome/@comment-30574470-20161116205135/@comment-30574470-20161121224436

Why don't you propose that all staff must learn Spanish then? I see Spanish is spoken quite a lot, so if you want a multilinguistic wikia, then start enforcing these rules. The staff should be able to speak and understand multiple languages in order to disarm possibly harmful situations in an increasingly multicultural wikia, right?

Look, I'm not saying that we shouldn't accept some people into our community. What I am saying is that it becomes increasingly hard for staff to decipher what someone is saying through merely Google Translate. For example, 2 people have an argument in Polish, and use very foul language. How would the staff know that the 2 people used foul language? If one of the 2 people complains about the other, they can't be trusted because there's no proof to go with their statement. You can't just take their word for it. They might have been having a civil debate and one of them got a bit angry and fabricated a claim of foul language. The staff wouldn't know. And if the staff don't know what happens in their wikia, they can't control it, so this foul bevahiour spreads right under the staffs' noses without the staff knowing a thing because the staff can't speak 20 different languages. Having everyone speak English puts them all on a level pllaying field for staff, and so they can pick out the bad users much more easily. It causes less hurt to people.