This is a moderator announcement - any issues please contact either myself or one of the team to discuss your problem further 
LANGUAGE THREADS
Over the past few weeks or so, as I'm sure you're well aware we've had several issues with the language threads being started up, sometimes in mickey taking fashion, and sometimes as a place for some good discussion. Admittedly we may have had this wrong on occasion such as with the American Juve thread where up until a point we had a superb political debate taking place which I enjoyed reading and participating in to a degree.
We may have also made a certain error in not looking at the long standing threads sooner, ie the likes of Arabic Juve, Chinese Juve etc.
In future, if some decent disussion is going on in there, falling into the following categories:
- Open to all members
- English language (see forum rules)
- Non-gossip orientated
- Not just hoards of pictures
then the thread will be allowed to remain open, we have no problem with such threads existing and they acually add a great deal of cultural and political enlightenment to many of our members, myself included, who are interested in such things. What we don't want are threads with going on 50 pages or so with writing in a foreign language, mostly because it excludes the majority of the members of this forum and also due to the rule about English being the number one language.
I think its a bit late to go trawling through these threads moderating them all since they've become so big, but having read a bit of the Chinese thread I can see there's potential there if the gossip is cut to a minimum at least. Gossip is, of course as we keep saying, not really welcome here, its not what we're all about, and besides msn messenger is that easily accessible you can chat to your heart's content.
What I've decided to do then, is to delete all the language threads in question, but with an open invitation to start up new threads provided they stick to the guidelines set in this post.
This is mostly due to their size and we obviously don't want to appear discriminatory by closing some and leaving others open.
Any questions will be answered in this thread or by PM with any of the moderators
Thanks for reading
LANGUAGE THREADS
Over the past few weeks or so, as I'm sure you're well aware we've had several issues with the language threads being started up, sometimes in mickey taking fashion, and sometimes as a place for some good discussion. Admittedly we may have had this wrong on occasion such as with the American Juve thread where up until a point we had a superb political debate taking place which I enjoyed reading and participating in to a degree.
We may have also made a certain error in not looking at the long standing threads sooner, ie the likes of Arabic Juve, Chinese Juve etc.
In future, if some decent disussion is going on in there, falling into the following categories:
- Open to all members
- English language (see forum rules)
- Non-gossip orientated
- Not just hoards of pictures
then the thread will be allowed to remain open, we have no problem with such threads existing and they acually add a great deal of cultural and political enlightenment to many of our members, myself included, who are interested in such things. What we don't want are threads with going on 50 pages or so with writing in a foreign language, mostly because it excludes the majority of the members of this forum and also due to the rule about English being the number one language.
I think its a bit late to go trawling through these threads moderating them all since they've become so big, but having read a bit of the Chinese thread I can see there's potential there if the gossip is cut to a minimum at least. Gossip is, of course as we keep saying, not really welcome here, its not what we're all about, and besides msn messenger is that easily accessible you can chat to your heart's content.
What I've decided to do then, is to delete all the language threads in question, but with an open invitation to start up new threads provided they stick to the guidelines set in this post.
This is mostly due to their size and we obviously don't want to appear discriminatory by closing some and leaving others open.
Any questions will be answered in this thread or by PM with any of the moderators
Thanks for reading
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