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Re: Actions against spam translators
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Csmiami
on 14/10/2021, 19:44:07 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (4)
I might expand on what DdmrDdmr, and ask what is the root cause of your concern? Are you concerned that your local section is being cluttered by unintelligible posts? Or are you upset that someone is taking work from someone that might otherwise be available to a native speaker of your language?
Being fair to everyone, it may have started as a rant out of seeing that in 6 months not regularly posting and reading only a few nothings nothing has really changed. Having worked as a translator may make me a little bit biased; but seeing the same few users posting all the garbage, seeing that literally no effort has been put into said garbage and that nothing can or is being done to said garbage... It's a bit infuriating. It was not a specific concern about this particular local board; since I know this is an extended practice over the forum.

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If I was hiring someone to translate very specific content that I have in one language to another language, I would probably want the translator to use an automated tool as a starting point, and to make corrections using their knowledge of the other language. Doing this ensures that nothing is missed.
This might be a more personal thought, but going this way is not the right one. Most of the altcoin ANN related content is either "new" or hard to think of a specific term in another language. Knowing this, a machine translator would simply find a way, but it's not the right way most of the times; requiring more work to re-do it than if starting from scratch.


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One person you mentioned in your other thread is pedrillo0. This person's most recent post is in a thread that he created. The thread has a total of 68 posts, all of which are written by him. The issue of using automated translation tools aside, making this many consecutive posts is obviously not acceptable. This person can write the OP, and any reserved posts, he can subsequently bump his thread by giving an update/news, but if no one posts in his thread after he writes the update/news, if he wants to post in his thread again, he needs to remove his previous post with an update/news, and if desired, he can consolidate the information into a single new post.

I've actually had talks in the past with a few mods about this (not focusing on this particular user) and it's entirely up to the mod. A thread made of 10+ pages of just updates CAN be considered spam, but since every post is an update and is usually separated by 24+ hours, it does not count as a "bump" or multipost. Fine print sucks.