Is it ok if we speak in dutch about the dutch elections and political issues?

[Saint Marcus]

Argument won... all you have left is insults...

no, just advice

and all you have are threaths.

[Robert]

Ming, stop the spamming #doitnow#
What's the reason you post two posts in the same thread within one minute, with no-one posting in between?

Your spamming behaving is starting to become ridiculous!

You made 6 !!!! posts in this thread!
5 of them were more or less repeating your original point of view.

Pherhaps it's a good reason to put this: "Again... If you don't like the rules... go elsewhere... your choice... " and this: "You are welcome to your opinion" in your sig.

It seems like 60% of your posts contains them.

Anyway, how funny my above statement might be. (well, it's meant to be funny. if you concidered me to be serious for one moment, that might prove there's some truth in it )

I think, Ming, you're on the wrong way.
Lately you more and more start to expect every post to be a spam post. I start to grow weary of you, entering a thread only to post "Don't let this turn into a spam fest"

About the 'some people might use bad words in your dutch thread' thing, uke smiley here:

As if I want someone to mess with my thread about politics?

I'll post stuff in greek. That seems to be ok
Oh wait, I forgot, the site owner is greek and all that and it's not a democraty, and I can post in dutch in other fora How could I forget that

Now stop acting like a baby sitter #doitnow!#

[Locutus]

In my experience, a handful of foreign language threads can actually be a good thing in the on-topic forums: it's so much easier to help people who barely speak English in their native language. I've helped people in English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian in the past, and wouldn't like to have to refrain from using any of those languages in the future if it turns out to be convenient...

[Hueij]

Maybe we should make SD an honorairy Dutchman? And tell the *********** (Dutch word) to disallow entrance to *********(Dutch name for the Netherlands) to people called Ming?

[MarkG]

generic exceptions in "laws" are wonderfull things

The FAQ, however, is possible not to cover all the rules of the forum administration

listen, we ask people kindly not to make their own little national clubs and discuss in english
if that is so hard to accept, i'm sorry, but that's the way it is.

besides, it would be unfair for americans, english, australians, etc: they dont have a non-english language to talk to each without anyone else understanding them

[Ming]

Locutus... wonderful arguments, but again, not a Democracy. If you have a problem, feel free to PM the owners of this site... it is THEIR rule...

And SM... telling somebody to "grow up" is an insult... so yeah, I must have won if that's the best you could do.

[Saint Marcus]

and the finns?

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by MarkG
listen, we ask people kindly not to make their own little national clubs and discuss in english
if that is so hard to accept, i'm sorry, but that's the way it is.

Ask people all kinds of stuff kindly, and you can dump the entire FAQ; isn't that wonderful?!

besides, it would be unfair for americans, english, australians, etc: they dont have a non-english language to talk to each without anyone else understanding them

SD did mention the slang

[Ming]

Yeah... those lucky fins... The Grandfather Clause is something they just love.

Don't you wish you were so lucky SM...

[Sonic]

Well, I think being unable to moderate is a big issue. For example, I will now post a sentence in Russian:

Pashol ty naxuy vsio ruski stervy

No one will be able to do something against me for that sentence, unless mods knows Russian. Same sentence in ENglish would most likely bring restriction or ban. And even if someone would send a PM to admins about such a sentence, they wouldn't be able to actually show mods what it means. That means if multi-language would be allowed people would just stat insulting each other in the opponent's language. Not to mention that if forums would become all-languages half of topics wouldnt be understandable.
However, I do think Finnish topics also should be banned because of reasons stated above, unless someone from OT mods knows Finnish...

[Hueij]

listen, we ask people kindly not to make their own little national clubs and discuss in english
if that is so hard to accept, i'm sorry, but that's the way it is.

Suomi threads...

All we ask is to be able to debate the current Dutch political situation on the board that we spend most of our time in because we like it here in the language we can express ourselves best in. It's not that Dutch threads will be popping up al over the place all of a sudden.

But if that is too much to ask...

[Saint Marcus]

I made numerous threads in dutch too....why don't they count?

[Ming]

Because we didn't see them... Cyber was nice enough to ask permission because he was aware of the rule... but that also brought attention to the situation.

Since it was brought up... I responded with the official Apolyton Policy as explained to me in the past.

I usually have no problem with an occasional post... as long as I don't receive a complaint about it. As far as threads go... not allowed. And since people have brought this to our attention, I'm afraid that new threads, and any old ones I find will be shut down.

I hope you are all happy with yourselves

[Saint Marcus]

when was this rule made up anyway?

[Locutus]

I tend to agree with the rest here: if non-English threads are not allowed, fine. But get red of the Finnish threads as well then, for consistency's sake.

I know, I don't make the rules here and this is by no means a democracy, and I'm sure many (especially Fins) will find it childish, but if Dutch, French, Greek and German (to name a few languages that have been used a lot in the past) threads are apparently no longer allowed, then it would avoid a lot of future confusion and closing of threads (and accompanying whining) if Finnish was from now on banned as well. On top of that, it would actually make sense, which can't be a bad thing...