Suggestion Infraction for bad english

Better just make 'em take a compulsory TOEFL for signing up on DP that'd bring people with good english and cut the spammers..yeah right.

 

I'm not saying to give infractions to people who have broken English - just those where it is absolutely incomprehensible. If the posts aren't readable on any level, then obviously they don't belong in an English forum.

 

we should not give the infraction for this

 

They should however ban on site people that post 1 - 2 fluffball posts per minute as part of a paid campaign just to promote sigs. Give it a rest already.

 

Looking at DP's alexa the majority of its traffic is non-european, theirfore not everyone may have english as their native language (this could be a disadvantage towards those 'bad' english members). I think its unfair banning members due to 'bad' english, as everyone should have equal chances no matter what language, limiting DP to fluent english only members, is just harsh and would effect DP's traffic.

However I do understood why some may agree, as it can lead to bad communication.

 

I think you're just kidding us. It's stupid. A lot of users (like me) have every day talks in other leanguages, because they aren't British or American.

 

You wouldn't be included I don't think. I could understand what you said there perfectly; it's only people who just can't speak English at all who irritate me by posting here.

Your English is fine

 

@OP
I think this is the most ridiculous suggestion I have ever seen here. Unlike warrior forum and wicked fire this forum gets major portion of its traffic from countries like India and Pakistan.
I mean we are not sitting in english exam here that we should fear for our grads and double check what we write. This is a webmaster forum for faak sake not english learning community.
All people who think typing with absolutely zero spelling and grammar mistakes should be a mandatory requirement to participate in a webmaster forum should get lives shoved up their asses. What makes you think that if we Asians write in bad english we aren't good freelancers or webmasters or seos?Seriously Op think about it. English is my 3rd or 4th language and in my opinion if my message is fully conveyed to the other people then it is sufficient, why should I bother to double check my spellings grammar even if I am typing in broken english it is OK by me. Its your problem if you don't understand it. Most people here have better IQs.

 

You got it right, he is no more.

 

with due respect, I wouldn't honestly support such a suggestion
its better to warn him off to perfect english, so that its understandable at least,
if one is trying to criticize some one with his bad english, then I wouldn't mind a few infraction pts to him, else I really wouldn't like to see a infraction for an grammatical mistake probably

 

Don't want the mods to die of exhaustion. So I will not support this idea.

 

If so,This forum just for english speaking countries..

 

I'm NOT saying for grammatical mistakes - I'm saying about English that is utterly incomprehensible. Have you ever read a post here that you absolutely can't understand? Like complete and utter nonsense? Because that's what I'm talking about - not really bad English even, just the posts that NO ONE can even read.

 

Banning people for just bad english wouldn't be a good for DP as people from India and pakistan are increasing so much day by day.

So, A better solution for this question could be giving a warning for 3 times or so, and still if the person continues then anyway DP or any one else on Dp would not be benefited by that person.

Hence, eventually we person should be banned with bad english after giving a specific number of warnings and Infractions but this rule should not be very strict, as sometimes it takes time and sudden apply of the rule will definetly affect DP.

Thats my view.

 

Infraction for horrible English, I'm in support as long as it is only for those who are not trying. The grammar of people here is absolutely pathetic. I know the difference between someone who doesn't speak good English and someone who is not even trying and most are not even trying.

 

Anyone notices the irony?

 

Missing two letters on my keyboard is very different than people who aren't even trying to speak English. It would be ironic if my post was "english here is pathetic ! being spokn by sm peoples on the boards"

 

yes no worries, I'm not talking about these kind of "errors" too.
I will come out with examples later

 

Perhaps this makes sense, but only for the authors of unreadable threads. Though I have never come across such threads.. (maybe they were removed just in time) Actually, I have never had any problems with understanding someone here.

Can you please show some examples of bad English, which deserves an infraction? (maybe the one that prompted you to create this thread

 

I am totally fine with this suggestion, only if it is applied in right situation. If a person has horrible grammar , he should be warned , and in case the user doesn't care , an infraction wouldn't hurt.