Suggestion I find it ironic that this forum is said to be an english speaking forum.

Discussion in 'Support & Feedback' started by coreyman, Jul 6, 2010.

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    26.7% of our traffic is from india, 20% is from the united states. Is there a way we can attract more english speaking people to the forums? I hate reading posts and having to decipher what is said. Example - "You are checking google how your site is lacking seo." That does not make any sense to me. I see more and more of these posts daily!
     
    coreyman, Jul 6, 2010 IP
  2. Helvetii

    Helvetii Notable Member

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    You could just add the idiots to your ignore list?
     
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  3. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #3
    Not sure where you get those stats, but it not anywhere remotely close according to the real analytics.
     
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  4. Grimm

    Grimm Peon

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    Nothing much you can do about that, DP is open to anyone from anywhere. I'm from Southeast Asia and I'm not that good at English but I at least try and make my English easy to comprehend. Just ignore them and move on.
     
    Grimm, Jul 6, 2010 IP
  5. TG2006

    TG2006 Guest

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    I know why digital point attracts alot of Indian users but you're not going to like my answer
     
    TG2006, Jul 7, 2010 IP
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    benjaminp Guest

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    it just shows that more people from india install the alexa toolbar
     
    benjaminp, Jul 7, 2010 IP
  7. Stingerftw

    Stingerftw Well-Known Member

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    Besides you can't say it's not an English speaking forum, whilst the Indian users and other Countries whose first language is not English still speak English on the forum.
     
    Stingerftw, Jul 8, 2010 IP
  8. coreyman

    coreyman Well-Known Member

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    You're probably right, I'm just looking at alexa. While we're at it, I was scammed $600 here on the forums!!! :( Sure, we didn't complete the deal in PM's here, but really who does that? That is SLOW and annoying. w00 I get to give someone negative iTrader for $600.

    I didn't say this WASN'T an english speaking forum, I just said I'm tired of having to decipher peoples bad english.

    Your english is pretty good.

    What might that be? :)

    Is that how alexa gets its data? I was baffled. Good guess on my source.
     
    coreyman, Jul 8, 2010 IP
  9. laxman363

    laxman363 Active Member

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    i am an indian and i dont think i have a poor english or maybe i am just an exception
     
    laxman363, Jul 9, 2010 IP
  10. XxiMischiefxX

    XxiMischiefxX Peon

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    #10
    Less traffic = less people to talk to/hire etc. Simple as that.
     
    XxiMischiefxX, Jul 9, 2010 IP
  11. supercar

    supercar Peon

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    What other languages did you see being used in the forum?

     
    supercar, Jul 9, 2010 IP
  12. Stingerftw

    Stingerftw Well-Known Member

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    But you did you that "You find it ironic that this forum is said to be an English speaking forum" which to me implies that you are saying that DP is not an English forum ;)
     
    Stingerftw, Jul 9, 2010 IP
  13. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #13
    Esperanto?

    While I acknowledge that the english of some members is less than perfect I doubt many of the english-as-a-first-language members would last long participating in a non-english forum. I have huge respect for people who can participate in a written forum (as opposed to oral) in a second or third language.
     
    sarahk, Jul 10, 2010 IP
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  14. Live2Write

    Live2Write Active Member

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    Strange it sounds. No sure why you'd had to do a $600 worth business when that bloke's English was undecipherable after all. That being said, there are many rogues here who scam people off work or money day in and out. We ought to move on learning from the experience !
     
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  15. alex_e

    alex_e Well-Known Member

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    Couldn't of said it better myself.
     
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  16. Abhik

    Abhik ..:: The ONE ::..

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    #16
    There are lots of people, including me, for whom English isn't the first language or even second.
    Why don't you just ignore that you find "non-english"? That'll save your valuable time as well as ours.
     
    Abhik, Jul 10, 2010 IP
  17. haynes11

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    I dont think he means englishr eally, as even english people write like that, i think he means NOOBS {people who write like : get dis package and google you will see on SEO, pls buy} now those type of posts really do my head in...
     
    haynes11, Jul 10, 2010 IP
  18. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    Text speak annoys me. dis instead of this. Stop being lazy, its not cool. You have 10 fingers (well most do) and a keyboard laid out to help those 10 fingers to type accurately. And the people who try and sell something by saying hurry up. I make decisions on my own timeframe thanks!
     
    sarahk, Jul 10, 2010 IP
  19. fastreplies

    fastreplies Banned

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    #19
    What really bothers me is not how or what people are saying but the contextual point they are trying to make
    which is not any. In most cases post doesn’t make any sense because posters are pursuing the post count and
    that is much more worst than gibberish they are using to express them selves.

    Mods (you know who you are) should delete them instead of contributing to discussion posts and clean the mess
    left by spammers, (as Forum Rules require) and not posts of members who are offering some substance.

    :)

    fastreplies
     
    fastreplies, Jul 12, 2010 IP
  20. Grimm

    Grimm Peon

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    I don't think DP will ever delete posts (maybe). If we say punishing (by means of warnings or infractions) members who post just because they want their post counts up then I think that we should also consider punishing members who post one liners (specially if it's already off topic) even if they are good in English? Well there's hardly anything we can do about controlling the quality of English posts in this forum, how about a sticky about proper English sentence construction? Just an idea.
     
    Grimm, Jul 12, 2010 IP
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