Random question: does anyone out there on these forums speak and write Arabic? I'm particularly interested in getting some stuff translated from English to Arabic for my game.

AE

I'm leaving this up for 2 days in the product chat board but will then move it to offtopic. that way you will get some exposure and the rules are enforced

Yes the rules should be enforced but why pick on this thread for it? This board is awash with off topic, modeling,scripting and feature requests. Always has been since the start and even if it is politely pointed out is just as politely ignored. This has made this the high volume board where folks know their thread will be seen by all, on the old forums the models and media board was the high volume and any attempt to post anything different in it would be moved pretty quickly.
The problem I have with this is important questions and announcements about the actual product get buried and missed and since it is probably the only board visited by most users then it is pointless to ask a relevant question in the other boards where it won't go answered for some time or gets little response, so the circle goes round and round.
Just sayin'

Not sure why but rolfy is right, people only seem to respond to threads on here, the other boards just seem to get ignored.

I totally agree with Rolfy, it really niggles me sometimes when people post in the wrong board, it's bad enough for most people, but my OCD screams at me every time I see it lol

Does anyone know the best place for Digestive biscuits ....
OOoo I bet that's really making you chuck stuff about

Being dunked in my tea!

I do apologise if you thought I was out of turn posting in this board. The description is, after all, "For all aspects of GameGuru that don't fit into the other GameGuru boards"...and this thread does directly pertain to my game. I personally don't consider it totally off-topic or tech/geek culture, plus - like several of you have said - it does get the most traffic.

Once again, sorry if it's caused offence. Mods, do with it as you wish, I knew I was pretty unlikely to find any Arabic speakers here anyway...

AE

Actually it was more about why pick on this thread when several other users seem to think this is the only board and mods have never said anything about it before now. Might be the only one visited by most users but the reason for that is apparent as said above. Nothing personal.

You are absolutely correct and I feel going by that your thread is more relevant than most posted around here which do have specific boards for their topic.

surely google can do this

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=english+to+arabic+translation&rlz=1C1GIGM_enGB707GB707&oq=english+to+arabic+translation&aqs=chrome..69i57.12039j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

In all fairness if Wolf hadn't already responded then I would also have moved it ..
The Title isnt blatantly obvious at first as he could be asking if the product could be available in Arabic. Its only reading it that it becomes obvious it should be in off topic..

Some start off on a certain topic and evolve into scripts for example and its only later you think it may be best moved. There are many where people ask questions about product issues but it does not mean they should go directly into "Reported Bugs" as they may not be. And we Mods do eat and sleep ... we don't see them all instantly

I was going to suggest this also ....but you could end up with the usual using translators

Hello friend ..... who are you today .... I hop your feeling cool

And there are several threads with blatantly obvious titles and content that don't belong on this board either, I don't see those being moved. You are the mods and no point in me arguing about it so I will drop it , just be aware that I am not the only one seeing a certain 'bias' here.

Sorry for derailing this AE it wasn't intentional.

Your game is not the GameGuru product itself. Using your logic, nearly every single thread, including much of "Off-Topic" would qualify to be posted here.



A lot of the topics on this board fall into a grey area of what I would call "Community led product promotion" or "Product Usage Theorycraft". There are also useful tutorials here and there which are of most use to users outside of the content's category (ie: stuff that members who frequent those specialty boards should already know. We don't have other boards which are particularly appropriate for those.



Although I personally agree that 2/3 or more of the content in this board doesn't belong here, it wasn't established with particularly clear guidelines. In some ways it's easier to identify what doesn't belong in this board vs. what does belong.

On the old boards, this thread would have been immediately locked as a "Team Request".

That said, pertinent announcements and discussions are stickied. So, they aren't being buried by anything.

Moving forward, I implore those who know better to place their topics in the appropriate boards. If you know that your topic doesn't belong here and are only posting on this board for fear of being overlooked, you should maybe think of poor Belidos and his OCD and the pain you are causing him and your fellow community members.

EDIT:

Since this thread has moved so far off-topic. I'm going to lock it. If someone is available to lend AE a hand, they can PM him.
Be on the lookout for a new thread discussing this topic.

EDIT 2: Topic up here: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/218298

I completely agree with this but there are also several that don't fall into this grey area I could easily point them out but that would put me in a position of appearing to attack other users, which I don't want to do around here, anyone can see for themselves which these are and nothing 'grey' about it. Tried before (in a polite manner) to bring this up and got nowhere now I see 'rules' being enforced on one user alone who has contributed more over the years than most around here.

This.
If mods are going to enforce the rules then do so without bias I don't care how many badges you got or how popular you are the rules apply to everyone the same.