Post by Catriel on Jun 14, 2004 3:25:14 GMT
Hello
I feel very sorry!
But I had to delete all the threads and posts in spanish from this message board because the board was in risk to be deleted.
The problem is not the advertise banners (I though they may be afraid that if somebody here does not speak english they may not consume their advertisment), it is not a corporative or a bussines problem.... it is just a culture problem!!
The owners of the server, who gave us this free service, speaks only in english!, so they can´t control if there is something offensive, etc in the board.
I was very confused, they are from California (United States) and they simply does not speak other languages.
So they don´t know (or they are not very sure) what INTERNET means or what is to live in a GLOBALIZED word, they´re just focused in their neighborhood.
No matter that US schools are teaching spanish language because they´ll need it in the future for commercial bussines, for so many people moving to USA, no matter if the people who opens a board or people who paids their ads are from France, Russia, Australia, rest of América, rest of the world.... they just do not understand another language and they do not have somebody to help them.
It´s okay, we will not break their rules, the service they offer (I mean this board) is excellent... if we talk about the software, and we´re glad to stay here. Maybe someday Proboards will become more democratic and we´ll be able to talk about our weeked or our tennis players in spanish or french again.
When somebody told me that the board may be deleted by this, and I read again the Terms of Service, I get annoyed but I though there were commercial reasons (what i posted above about advertising). Because I am sure everybody here speaks in english, you can´t become a member if not.
But the reasons are others.
No matter who won Roland Garros, no more "Vamos" for Gaudio or "Udachi" for Myskina, please.
So, this is the task: DO NOT POST IN SPANISH OR OTHER LANGUAGES anymore if we all behave the board will be safe.
Sorry again! Sorry for deleting the posts you made with so many friendship and patience, just post in english since now.
That´s all
Alejandro.
I feel very sorry!
But I had to delete all the threads and posts in spanish from this message board because the board was in risk to be deleted.
The problem is not the advertise banners (I though they may be afraid that if somebody here does not speak english they may not consume their advertisment), it is not a corporative or a bussines problem.... it is just a culture problem!!
The owners of the server, who gave us this free service, speaks only in english!, so they can´t control if there is something offensive, etc in the board.
I was very confused, they are from California (United States) and they simply does not speak other languages.
So they don´t know (or they are not very sure) what INTERNET means or what is to live in a GLOBALIZED word, they´re just focused in their neighborhood.
No matter that US schools are teaching spanish language because they´ll need it in the future for commercial bussines, for so many people moving to USA, no matter if the people who opens a board or people who paids their ads are from France, Russia, Australia, rest of América, rest of the world.... they just do not understand another language and they do not have somebody to help them.
It´s okay, we will not break their rules, the service they offer (I mean this board) is excellent... if we talk about the software, and we´re glad to stay here. Maybe someday Proboards will become more democratic and we´ll be able to talk about our weeked or our tennis players in spanish or french again.
When somebody told me that the board may be deleted by this, and I read again the Terms of Service, I get annoyed but I though there were commercial reasons (what i posted above about advertising). Because I am sure everybody here speaks in english, you can´t become a member if not.
But the reasons are others.
No matter who won Roland Garros, no more "Vamos" for Gaudio or "Udachi" for Myskina, please.
So, this is the task: DO NOT POST IN SPANISH OR OTHER LANGUAGES anymore if we all behave the board will be safe.
Sorry again! Sorry for deleting the posts you made with so many friendship and patience, just post in english since now.
That´s all
Alejandro.