Quote from: 1miau on October 22, 2023, 11:08:35 PM

Quote from: DVlog on October 22, 2023, 06:40:23 AM

One guy from the community got 40merit from 1miau by translating 3 of his topics in a week. Some newbies noticed this and started doing translation right away by using google translation. I cannot blame them as they are seeing that if someone can get 40 merit that easily then why don't we try this?

Since I have obviously been mentioned here to give out a fraudulent Merit (maybe the meaning of your statement is a bit off due to being lost in translation), I can tell you that for each translator of each language, I have requested a proofreading of established native speakers to make sure that these translations are not Google translate spam.
If a translator is proven to be a Google translate spammer, I won't give out a substantial amount of Merit and I would reject all subsequent translation requests.
For some translations (not related to your Bengali local board) I have requested an improvement until they were acceptable.

I have no doubt about your dedication and professionalism in the forum. What the point of my statement was was that a lot or enough to send 10 to 20 merits for a translation. I know it is up to the merit source but what i am seeing is that none of these translations are being read by the local member as this post doesn't get any discussion after being posted. Contrary to what happens after so much merit distribution is a lot of new translators have tried to translate useless post some with permission and some don't with google translator without any basic skill in translation. What encourages them to behave like this?

Quote from: 1miau on October 22, 2023, 11:08:35 PM

The problem of your Bengali local section aren't constructive members translating interesting content, the flawed forum layout is the issue here.
So, it's better complain about the lazy forum development (like your OP does) because a proper Bengali board will solve the entire issue of long translations, which are currently being placed in a single thread.
This is no issue at all in "real" local boards.
I'm wondering anyways why it's so difficult for the forum developers to establish proper local boards. But after wasting more than 2,000,000 USD on the new forum software, I'm not really wondering about anything anymore here.

Quote from: DVlog on October 21, 2023, 10:57:05 AM

It sounds illogical to ask for a Bengali sub board for Bengali translation and press release because we don't have any local boards yet. But the way the Bengali board is hammered with translated topics and news source posts, it looks like spamming to many of us.

It's enough to have Bengali local sub-boards for:

- Bitcoin discussion
- Bitcoin (price) speculation
- Beginners and Help
- Altcoins
- Mining
- Service discussion
- ...

Each translation would be posted where it's suited best.

I agree that news spam should neither get merited nor paid by signature campaigns. Doing so, will reduce news spam massively.

For being ranked 7 among all the languages in the word we deserve a local board of our own. I admit we are having trouble having a lot of spamming activity in our board but it is an active board and new members are joining and posting there. I don't know the right approach to request for a board of our own but as you are one of the moderators of the forum i am not sure you can help us anyway or not but we will be really appreciate it.