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I don't think I like this change tbh. IMO, all it seems to be doing is ripping apart the tight communities formed in the past few years in the separate language forums and is forcing them into a huge community that they may not necessarily want to be a part of.
Quote from the page 1:
"As part of this change we have made the decision to integrate some of the smaller regional communities into the English community so that they can enjoy all the benefits of being part of a bigger RuneScape community. "
The thing is, they already had the opportunity to do this. Some people post in both language forums as well as the main English forums. However, at the same time there are those who have decided that they do not wish to participate in the English forums for whatever reason (either they don't speak very fluent English, or that they just would rather be able to interact with a community that speaks the same language as their native tongue).
Example here: A few weeks ago while posting in the Account Help forums as always, a poster came in saying that they couldn't speak very good English at all (their post didn't make much sense to me, we'll leave it at that), and so I directed them, with a little help from Google Translator, to the Spanish forum. They made it over there OK and within minutes the player got the answer they needed and was able to resolve their situation.
If this were to happen and there were no language forums, what would have happened? Personally, all I can see happening is that this poor player who needed help would end up finding themselves hopeless as the thread would most likely be locked due to the "Only posts in English can be posted on the English forums" rule. Now, that isn't necessarily the best example but its one that is good enough as to why I personally think that removing these communities is only going to make things worse off rather than better off.
I'm out of room here so I'll stop rambling on here now.
Quote from the page 1:
"As part of this change we have made the decision to integrate some of the smaller regional communities into the English community so that they can enjoy all the benefits of being part of a bigger RuneScape community. "
The thing is, they already had the opportunity to do this. Some people post in both language forums as well as the main English forums. However, at the same time there are those who have decided that they do not wish to participate in the English forums for whatever reason (either they don't speak very fluent English, or that they just would rather be able to interact with a community that speaks the same language as their native tongue).
Example here: A few weeks ago while posting in the Account Help forums as always, a poster came in saying that they couldn't speak very good English at all (their post didn't make much sense to me, we'll leave it at that), and so I directed them, with a little help from Google Translator, to the Spanish forum. They made it over there OK and within minutes the player got the answer they needed and was able to resolve their situation.
If this were to happen and there were no language forums, what would have happened? Personally, all I can see happening is that this poor player who needed help would end up finding themselves hopeless as the thread would most likely be locked due to the "Only posts in English can be posted on the English forums" rule. Now, that isn't necessarily the best example but its one that is good enough as to why I personally think that removing these communities is only going to make things worse off rather than better off.
I'm out of room here so I'll stop rambling on here now.
06-Jul-2011 18:38:54
Hurray for the Dutch Forums
06-Jul-2011 19:41:43
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