Originally Posted by kanebear

Yet Japanese forums exist. Surely you wouldn't visit a Japanese forum expecting to post in German? Even if not expressly prohibited, IMO keeping posts to one language facilitates communication. That applies to any forum in any language be it German, Japanese, Korean, French, etc. If someone doesn't understand, there's always Babelfish. That's how I read quite a few Japanese and Korean forums and post to them as well. It's not ideal but it gets the job done.