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In another context I thought about the possibility for links in foreign languages as long as they are marked, and maybe summarized by a sentence to help people get the context. I think in todays time with browser being able to translate, that should be a feasible approach. I didn't find time to debate that with the other mods, yet.
To me, coming from a moderation perspective, the idea of whole discussions in a plentitude of languages is problematic. In my opinion, we would need to have more mods being able to at least police content if need be.
LLM are able to do pretty good translations nowadays, even where former automatic translators did badly (example: Japanese to English sucks on Ggle Translate, but is much better on LLM). So I think it's manageable for occasional moderation. You can use DuckDuckGo's duck.ai for a free and safer access to different LLMs. I don't know what's the quality for languages with a smaller amount of content on the internet, though.
Well, are you ready to moderate non-English post?
Yeah, I thought about it when I created my tiny food community and decided to allow any language in the rules.
No, I'm really asking. if you would be willing to moderate contents in this exact community. I mean, we need to know the means at our disposal to debate the request.
Sure I could moderate French, English, Spanish and maybe Japanese a bit, and use LLMs for the rest. Although, I am uncertain about the point of having both BuyFromEU and BuyEuropean, is there a discussion about this topic somewhere?
Yes, the topic dropped on or two times.
I commenced a vote if people want to stick around after I received mod status, then made a post about what to expect to discuss/find here. After the vote I commited on finding mods and setting up this place. Lets see where this leads.