Portuguese Forumer Responds on Board
The story we carried regarding a member policy of the Sonic Fan Games HQ to only speak English that caused so much controversy in the Sonic community has a small, albeit important update. We wouldn’t be doing our jobs if we didn’t bring you the follow-up.
Dragonsky00, the Portuguese SFGHQ forumer who took some heat from administrator Slingerland after asking in both Portuguese and English for comment on his fan game project, stopped just short of an apology early last week for the trouble. His post, unedited:
Excuse me if I was inconviniente with the double posts, I already picked out and about the only Sonic I prefer the style of Sonic S3 & K, and forgive me for not knowing English so well
Dragonsky00 edited his original posts and deleted anything not in English. Slingerland’s original comments remain.
TUESDAY AM UPDATE: After this article was originally published, Slingerland responded to Dragonsky00′s latest post to clarify his position:
It’s fine and actually, you type English rather well. There’s a difference between being able to understand you and completely broken English. We all know what you have been saying. It’s just silly to post the Portuguese translations on an English speaking forum. My comment was for the sake of neatness. I sent you a PM explaining the preceding statements when I said it.
You’re cool. You don’t have to ask for forgiveness, because you were never in trouble [...]
With that, we consider this story complete.
Many who commented on the original story were overwhelmingly in favor of the SFGHQ policy. If you wish, feel free to continue the discussion below.
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No, no, you got it wrong. Long live the Toast King!
In reply to Bloom and his notion that anything is news worthy, no matter if the source wants it posted or not;
News fits into two categories:
Things people need to know, or things people want to know.
Science, politics, celebrity life styles, a newly announced ideo game, they ALL fit into this category. But a private forum matter? Really?
It fits into neither category. It’s not a matter of whether the source “wants the news posted or not”. TSS has defied SEGA a couple of times in this regard, before it went to a more conversational blog format.
I don’t know enough about this situation to agree with either side on a lot of the issues discussed here, but there is one thing I can say with absolute certainty: This news isn’t even worthy of being tabloid fluff. Any website the desires to deliver interesting, comprehensive news wouldn’t even consider posting such BS.
I don’t plan on coming back here. It’s a shame, because I actually envy the writing style in this article. Regrettably, the news wasn’t even worthy of being fluff, and completely innappropriate for a website like this. I hope CNN doesn’t begin reporting about my administration policies on SEGA.com….
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Sorry for for my conversation but this website is overly racist, very insulting conversational rudeness, haves no rules but English, permanently banned without giving something good to talk about, trolling other users and disrespectful advised and I don’t like this website because people might get permanently banned from that website so people please do not enter that website it may be dangerous and very illegal, some may have drugs and impersonating.
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Thank you for listening have a nice day.