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Old Sep 17, 2007 | 8:12 pm
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Originally Posted by magiciansampras
Interesting.

The reason given in the thread I cited was that the moderator couldn't tell if there was a TOS violation within the foreign language. This seems like a reasonable argument to me.

If I start a thread and call so-and-so a ......... in Ukrainian, it's still a violation even though few would know it.

Nevertheless, I'm glad to hear there is no official policy against non-English posts. ^
Given the diversity of folks on the board and the variety of languages members know, we pretty much figured that if there's a TOS violation in any language we're going to hear about it.
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