English only (or English/Dutch/Spanish only) public chat

[betty's oldies]

Title says above. Tired of chat being cluttered up with a bunch of languages mixed up in public chat? This is for you.

**NOTE** I got approval from a staff member on staff-help that this suggestion is allowed.

Suggestion
As title says, limit the public chat to either English only or English, Dutch, and Spanish only. That means all other languages are not permitted to be said on public chat.

Reasoning: the server is mainly geared toward English/Dutch/Spanish-speaking players. There are many servers geared to different audiences just as we are geared toward these 3 audiences. We already have this on the discord server where only 3 language channels are permitted (English, Spanish, Dutch).

This does NOT apply to private chat. Private chat includes PMs, party, team chat, and local freebuild chat (on your plot). This applies only to global and lobby chat (e.g. solo game chat, lobbies, etc.).

It can't be reported but suggestion for the punishment system:

-First 3 instances: warnings
-Repeating instances: 1 hour mute. Eventually becomes 1 day mute.

Frequent Responses
1. "This is a form of discrimination."
-No, this is not. An example here (2nd automated message) from a different game has a rule in place that prohibits non-English chat in public chats. Below says that "war and leader chats...must be in English," both of these chats being public chats. The reasoning is the same as what it is in the suggestion: the game gears toward English-speaking players and many servers of the same game cater toward different audiences. The punishment is under line #2 (non-English war chat) and is harsher than the suggested mutes.

(Additional explanation edited in) The screenshot above is one region where the game is hosted. That server happens to cater toward English speakers only. Other regions host the same game and cater to different players. For example, the game is also hosted in Japan, Korea, Europe, Vietnam, and Latin America. Therefore, other servers can be set up to cater toward the other players. Another way would be to add a guild system where players who speak the same language can congregate. Players can see the guild list and apply to their desired guild.

 

[Snodia]

I am against this suggestion because not everyone can speak only English or the other main languages that you see around the server. There are staff for as many languages as they can possibly have. Players should be able to speak in their native language in any chat as long as they are not breaking any rules. A solution to your problem is to ignore any chat that you don't like seeing.

 

[betty's oldies]

I am against this suggestion because not everyone can speak only English or the other main languages that you see around the server. There are staff for as many languages as they can possibly have. Players should be able to speak in their native language in any chat as long as they are not breaking any rules. A solution to your problem is to ignore any chat that you don't like seeing.

They can still speak it in private chat.

 

[Snodia]

They can still speak it in private chat.

That could, but why would you want to keep someone from speaking in any chat? Just let people say things in their own language as long as they follow the rules.

 

[AnimalTamer1]

Okay, I had said in Staff-Help on Discord that it is a form of discrimination and I still stand by that. There are a lot of players that speak a different languages and just do not know English. Muting them for that is basically saying we do not want people of your culture on our server unless you can speak the language of a different culture. A language might I add that is not that easy to learn, which is coming from someone that speaks English as her main language.

Another problem is that this server is friendly and extremely welcoming. It would give this server some bad credit if they limited the chat and punished users because they do not know any other language. On top of that, but making it so the chat is only one language would be impossible since you would have to filter out letters or combinations of letters and at that point we would not have a chat at all. Granted I could be wrong on why it is impossible since I do not know how coding works, but I do know that this would not be a feasible

mainly geared toward English/Dutch/Spanish-speaking players.

While we are geared to those a bit more than other languages, we are still geared for French, Italian and even Arabic. We have staff in the team that can speak these languages and are able to communicate with those that do in chat.

They can still speak it in private chat.

I mean this would cause spam as everyone Private Messages others to see who speaks what language. On top of this, but what if someone cannot friend more than 10 players, which is stone rank (the majority rank), so they cannot create a group of people that speak their language. Allowing it in only PM would be a huge hassle and something that would make those of a different culture leave since they would be so limited on who they could communicate with.

I am sorry, but I am 100% against this being added. I love seeing the various cultures in chat and knowing how connected we all are just off one Minecraft server. It is amazing to se how we can all come together and love one server so much and enjoy every second of being on it.

 

[0ffense]

I don't see many languages in the chat other than English, Dutch, or Spanish. So I don't think that this is needed.

 

[Passer]

Sorry I think if people speak a different language then English Dutch and Spanish then they have all the right to speak that way in chat.

 

[Deleted member 169486]

As title says, limit the public chat to either English only or English, Dutch, and Spanish only. That means all other languages are not permitted to be said on public chat.

Ah yes only speak English here. Because that has worked out so well in the past. In fact, if you look at the server official rules, it says

• No hate speech: This includes but is not limited to unfair and unjust behavior towards other players based on race, religion, political affiliation, or gender/sexual identity.

Discrimination should never, and will never, be allowed on this server. If you haven't noticed, I linked a few video from youtube that go along with your suggestion. Is this really what you want on this server?

I don't personally believe the server is geared to any language at all, but we have discord channels for those languages because they are the most commonly spoken.

 

[Gamerfull]

Better to go on as it is, I am against this idea, each person has to speak his language. Anyway as the main language we have English

 

[Wintrie]

tbh like 45% of players on cubecraft arent english, sorry but -1

 

[Deleted member 169486]

Frequent Responses
1. "This is a form of discrimination."
-No, this is not. An example here (2nd automated message) from a different game has a rule in place that prohibits non-English chat in public chats. Below says that "war and leader chats...must be in English," both of these chats being public chats. The reasoning is the same as what it is in the suggestion: the game gears toward English-speaking players and many servers of the same game cater toward different audiences.

This does nothing to show that this is not a form of discrimination.

 

[ChasingRainbows]

How often do you actually see language that isn't english dutch or spanish in the cubecraft chat? Like even if you make this a rule, it is pointless because there aren't very many people who don't speak those 3 languages.

Also on the topic of whether this is discrimination or not: It doesn't matter. If cubecraft wants to discriminate, they're a private server so they can. If you run your own server then nobody else can tell you what you can and can't do on it.

 

[justifyletters]

No, I disagree with this suggestion. As multiple people have said above, not everyone is able to speak english. Non-english speakers will have to communicate with each other via pm, which is not fair on them.

 

[Facelurite]

No , this would benefit me greatly , but no. Disallowing languages is beyond stupid . Just because its suits you , doesnt mean you can debar someone from their own language. The suggestion is discriminatory and racist

 

[Younisco]

This would be virtually impossible. As a server with 10k+ at peak times, there will be people who are speaking different languages, and reporting or punishing them would be completely unethical if they're only speaking their mother-tongue language.

 

[betty's oldies]

This would be virtually impossible. As a server with 10k+ at peak times, there will be people who are speaking different languages, and reporting or punishing them would be completely unethical if they're only speaking their mother-tongue language.

That is why I put "not reportable."

 

[AnimalTamer1]

-First 3 instances: warnings
-Repeating instances: 1 hour mute. Eventually becomes 1 day mute.

That is why I put "not reportable."

By saying they could be punished, would mean it is reportable. They could not be punished if no one reported them. Therefore as Younisco said:

reporting or punishing them would be completely unethical

does apply.

 

[betty's oldies]

In the past, teaming couldn't be reported (before August 2016). The same can be applied here where only GMs (game masters) can hand out punishments if someone speaks non-English chat.

(More details will be added later.)

 

[Jef15ist]

Maybe a command, such as /setlanguage Dutch so you can select the languages you wish to see

 

[Simbaaa]

Not only will this decrease the amount of players on, but it is kind of rude to not allow/support all languages