Rules Translations?

[Drake]

I'm not really an active player anymore, but I thought I'd point out one thing: Disco has a decent number of not-English-speaking players, or at least it did last time I was on. You can say 'We don't want to translate the rules because you have to speak English to play', but that only works if that is actually enforced, i.e. banning anyone who obviously can't speak English. And that doesn't happen.

So you have to ask yourselves, since these people are going to be playing on the server anyway, even if they may or may not last very long (some do, I've seen them), would it be better for them to have some idea of the server rules, thereby making everyone's Disco lives easier and less stressful (few things are more stressful than someone breaking the rules and not understanding your language when you try and tell them), or would it be better to just leave them completely ignorant, so they'll fly around blissfully ignoring rules and being none the wiser until someone finally ends up turning in a sanction report (this can take some time, during which time they can put a good number of people in a bad mood and raise blood pressures dangerously). Which sounds like a better plan?

My point in short: Either enforce the English-only (by banning anyone who can't speak English, this is the worse option in my opinion), or get some helpful people to translate the rules and occasionally have a translated version of the 'go read the rules' message flash across the server. The non-English-speakers will be so surprised to see a server message that they can read that they might even go and take a look at the rules, which is more than could be said about an awful lot of English-speaking players.

Just my humble opinion.