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How can monolingual members of a bilingual online community be made to feel more welcome?
I have been in a trilingual coalition in an online game. It consisted of three distinct clans, one Russian, one Polish, one Turkish, each had its own armory, leaders and rules (and, of course, members)...
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Effects of supporting multiple languages on community engagement?
There are pros and cons...
Pro's:
A bigger User-Base
Some nice interaction(maybe)
A bigger repository
More interaction(if you have the right user)
Con's:
More work(controlling, setting it up, ...
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Effects of supporting multiple languages on community engagement?
Mixing languages can be seen as noise by many community members.
I've seen best impact by "segmenting" communities by locale.
It actually illustrates the very definition of a community (people ...
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How should one handle a foreign user with a desire to be constructive, but a severe inability to communicate?
I was an admin in a couple of communities related to Persistent World, a role-playing modification to Mount&Blade: Warband. Role-playing was mostly done in English, but there were some players who ...
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How should one handle a foreign user with a desire to be constructive, but a severe inability to communicate?
You mentioned that the problem behaviors include modifying in-game elements and "violating a land ownership rule", possibly more out of an inability to understand the rules than a desire to violate ...
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