Should DU be an English Only site?

[TorchTheWitch]

257. well how nice for you

Look, there is about a handful of all the thousands of posters here that can read Japanese. As one of those special few that can of course it's doesn't bother you BECAUSE YOU CAN READ IT. And if you yourself are making these PRIVATE (not semi-private) messages in the forums where they don't belong than it's rude to everyone else that can't read it and has to be bothered by using a translation site that makes mincemeat out of the translation anyway.

Private or semi-private (whatever that's supposed to mean) messages are for the email system here and they did that way so that people would be able to easily read other peoples' posts without having to jump through hoops and so that others wouldn't be insulted by people using the forums to conduct their private messages publicly and practically in code.

If you can't understand why it's rude to post on a message board that the whole point is because you have something to say that you WANT all other members to read in a language that you know most people can't and specifically to conduct a private conversation in public than you have a social skills problem.

It's SIMPLE, if you purposely don't want the vast majority of posters to be able to understand your post by posting in a language you know the vast majority of people can't understand in the public forums it's RUDE. The forums are not where private conversations are held for the simple fact that it is recognizably rude to all the other posters that can't understand your foreign language private "code".

Yes, I'm well aware that sometimes you posted in Japanese without a translation and for awhile had you on ignore because of it - because it was intentionally rude to be posting in the public forums using a language that you knew the vast majority couldn't understand in order to intentionally exclude the vast majority of posters from being in on those private conversations you were so rudely carrying out in public. And the only reason to do that as far as I can see is make all the other people seeing your "coded" posts wonder what you were talking about and why they were being excluded.

Just keep your private conversations private like everyone else here does so as not be be intentionally rude to everyone else that you know can't read these foreign language public posts. It's just as rude and intentionally hurtful to be at a public gathering and whispering into the ears of a scant few at that gathering in order to exclude most everyone else from a private conversation that it's RUDE to be carrying out in public knowing that everyone else is going to be wondering why they are being intentionally excluded from the conversation. If you wouldn't do something like that at a public gathering of people because you know it's rude than don't do it here because DU is also a public gathering, and of course you know that. And if you didn't know that carrying out private conversations in public by using a language you know the vast majority can't understand, using a private code that you know only a select few can understand or whispering into a select few's ears is rude which you should have learned as a child than I suggest you learn it now and just keep your private conversations private as everyone else seems to know is the mannerly thing to do.

So again, WHY are you and one or two others wanting to carry out private conversations publicly by using Japanese knowing that doing so excludes most everyone else from these private conversations that you have publicly and when you know that there is a private message system here for the purpose of having private conversations? WHY if not to be intentionally exclusive and therefore rude?