It may be a good suggestion, but if you allow Spanish you will also have to allow every other non-English language. This of course would result in complete and utter chaos.
Indeed, it's tricky enough to keep the site in check when the staff can read, and, in most cases
, understand the posts.
It's not just for
Jordan's benefit, but the entire
staff, and while we do have staff that're multilingual, English is a native tongue for the majority of us. By keeping an eye on things and acting appropriately we are able in most instances to stop trouble from occurring before it escalates too far and avoids anyone having to be issued warnings or infractions for inappropriate behaviour.
Imagine, hypothetically, if we decided, for example, to allow a Chinese thread, but only have one Chinese speaking staff member.
We're human beings, not modbots (
) and we have to take downtime too.
A personal attack, a sweary outburst, a discussion of illegal activities, etc. that violates the AUP could take place and escalate without the staff members online at that time being able to read it, understand it or act on it and it'd be left to the staff member that could understand to fix it after the fact, and possibly at the point where there would be no option but to discipline the offenders, instead of someone posting a "chill out" or "leave it alone" message in the thread to avoid having to take administrative action later on.
Having all the staff able to understand all the posts here means there's uniformity in how we're able to act, as we're all then accountable to one another, and most importantly
Jordan. If he's unable to understand the offensive posts, and the warnings issued by the staff too, then there's no way he can tell if we're performing the task that he's asked us to do for him.
Hope this goes some way to further explaining
Jordan's reasoning here.
