Should DU be an English Only site?

[Xithras]

98. That only works if the alerter claims to be alerting over the language itself.

I would never hide a post simply because it was written in a language other than English, but what if someone alerted a post and claimed that it contained something that violated the DU TOS? If the alerter was correct, then the poster probably would not be honest about the content of the post if asked, and it's unreasonable to ask juries to regularly translate non-English posts into English just to judge an alert.

I actually do wish that the admins would integrate a translation function into the site to make this sort of thing less of an issue. I live in an area with a Hispanic majority and know many first and second generation Hispanic Democrats for whom Spanish is still their primary language. I've long felt that by lacking any capability to handle and translate different languages, DU is excluding a large portion of the Democratic Party's own base. I absolutely agree that it would be better if the site were more multilingual, but the owners haven't provided the tools needed to make that happen effectively.