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Re: Actions against spam translators
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on 13/10/2021, 20:44:01 UTC
⭐ Merited by DdmrDdmr (6) ,LoyceV (4) ,JayJuanGee (3)
Unfortunately, this is one of the problems you'll run into when you run a forum catering for all the languages that exist. The Spanish section used to have a local moderator which I presume was a native speaker of the language, however when they went inactive, theymos contacted at least one other user to fill the position (which I presume would have been a permanent addition due to them likely being a native speaker), however they rejected the offer.

Thus, theymos asked me to fill in temporarily. The only issue with that is, and this was made quite clear is I'm definitely not a native hence my username Cheesy, and I'm definitely not fluent in the language, thus the more complex reports are often the more likely they'll be left on ignore, since I can't act upon something that I don't understand completely, and this has become more strict over time as I've adapted to the role, and this is the same answer to your question about global moderators. From my observations; a few global moderators have some understanding of several language, but probably aren't fluent in all of them. Therefore, they also don't act upon thing they don't understand.

Now, how do we solve this? Well, there's a lack of data to work on, and theymos was aware of the regular reporters in the Spanish section, I know of one user who would have been a brilliant fit, but rejected it like I said. Those regular reporters however, haven't really changed. There's a small amount of users that are reporting in the section, and then it's only a couple of reports in a week. Your reporting spree that month was by far the largest in the Spanish section since I've been filling in. I think we've had discussions privately around the time this was happening also. I do send my own updates to theymos from time to time, however it has been eerily quiet on the reporting front, and I'm not going to send an update to him when there's nothing really changed since the last one.

I know that theymos prefers to appoint local moderators which are native speakers, and have demonstrated good knowledge of the language. However, this decision from theymos was seen as a temporary one, and I absolutely didn't see this as a permanent appointment, and I'm still under that impression, and by all means wouldn't want to be the permanent position, I am happy filling in for the time being until a suitable mod is found. However, due to the inactivity of reporting has become a little longer than anticipated.

As for the translation reports you can report them if you want, but if they are particularly complex, then you risk them being ignored. That's just unfortunately the situation we are in, until a suitable native speaker is appointed, which at the moment I couldn't possibly comment on how likely or when that's going to happen. I think you may have private messaged me a while ago, and I said it was likely temporary. Though, I know that was a long time ago now. I know last time theymos responded to me on the situation, he was aware of several candidates, and at that time it looked fairly likely that there were options, however some of those users have fallen off on activity.

Until theymos identifies, and decides who shall be moderator there, then there's always a risk that your reports will be ignored due to complexity. Hence, the need for a native speaker. Unfortunately, despite a somewhat active community there, there isn't too many which report actively.