Okay, I understand English is the universal language and when posting a comment regarding a show or movie people should write it in English so that others can understand better. But if the original language of the show isn’t in English, then why restricting people to comment on English only? I was w…

In answer to your first question, I would imagine having to comment in English on Non English content, might be because, there are a huge amount of people who watch Non English shows/movies with subtitles (myself included) as I only read and speak English, and if I wanted to see comments on a Hindi …

The main reason is we’re not able to moderate non English comments effectively. The app should have the correct error message reflected though, that is a bug.

Valid point though. I wouldn’t be interested in other language comments. As I can’t read those (unless they’re Dutch lmao). I hate foreign language reviews that are machine-translated on webshops too :cloud_with_lightning::cloud_with_lightning::cloud_with_lightning:

Well, there are even larger numbers of people who watch non-English shows without subtitles because it is their own native language. And they would like to comment in their language, but they don’t care whether American users can read it or not. They write these comments for people from their own n…

Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. Most regional contents are watched by that particular region’s people, and if a show becomes popular, they dub it into other languages too. Take ‘Dark,’ for example, which was a German show and was dubbed into many other languages. Same thing with Squid Game.

I totally get wanting to comment on your own native language shows using your language… but I also see the point of the devs and mods here. I work with many projects/teams around the world and a few of them are created by devs in their language and translated to English after, so you can post in ei…

A hint: the person from the past was Austrian.

This sums up exactly why most forums and discords use English, companies cannot have moderators knowing every language there is, that’s the bottom line, English is " basically" universal and can be observed and moderated the most efficiently.

Why does the comment need to be English only?

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Archigos (AJ) June 1, 2024, 1:43pm 11

Sorry for the confusion I was doing a bunch of stuff and I apologize for getting that wrong but you’re right

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Why does the comment need to be English only?

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