Roger Freeman

Summary:

Non-English application.

Roger Freeman

EdAWACSdenyY 21 Nov 2014 22:48

Today user Roger Freeman applied for the CI wiki. The application was written entirely in Belorussian. Provided below is a transcript of his application:

Application text: Пожалуйста, сделайте меня членом вашего сайта.

The translation of his application was: "Please make me a member of the site" roughly.

Seeing as we are a primarily English wikia and we don't exactly have a Russian Translation site for him to join I denied his application

Provided below is a transcript of my denial of his application:

I regret to inform you that your application has been denied due to the incompatibility of your language (Russian) with a primarily English speaking wiki. There are concerns you will not fit in.

Further thoughts of Ed: I'm not sure if he understands English and was trolling or that he doesn't understand English and wanted to join. Or he wanted to show us that he could speak Russian in conjunction with English. If you feel I stepped over the line, please tell me.

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Re: Roger Freeman

Doctor Creed 22 Nov 2014 05:31

Hm. If you message him, see what language he responds in.

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Re: Roger Freeman

DrCaduceus 22 Nov 2014 08:35

I would just like to start that I disagree with your denial message:

I regret to inform you that your application has been denied due to the incompatibility of your language (Russian) with a primarily English speaking wiki. There are concerns you will not fit in.

I'm not saying I disagree with everything there, but you could just rephrase things. Yours is poorly-worded and sounds cold (the dickish kind). If he's a genuine applicant, it would be cool if he'd take the time to check and join the site.

Hell, we have Chumagen, don't we? English may not be his first language, but we all love the macho man.

Now.

From my experiences here, he could be any of these:

• Some non-Russian-speaking guy who just ran it by Google Translate to look all cool and shit.
• A guy who, in fact, speaks Russian, but is a spammer, slightly supported by the fact that he applied using the default sentence, and the generic name (as a spamkill team member, I've seen this type before).
• A guy who, in fact, genuinely speaks Russian.
• A combination of any of the above (emphasis on the second and third ones)

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Re: Roger Freeman

EdAWACSdenyY 25 Nov 2014 08:23

Sorry for the late replies. I have been working on my term papers. :(

To be frank that was the nicest possible rejection I could think of that was within the word limit. If you look at it from my point of view I was trying to phrase it in a way to minimize dickery. I've mostly been writing acceptance applications (which are much easier to write for me) so this was my first attempt at application rejections.

I propose we set up a standardized system for forum applications so that this mess doesn't occur again.

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Re: Roger Freeman

Dr Nouva 25 Nov 2014 14:05

I agree with that, but we shouldn't completely throw him off the boat just yet, he may figure out a way to work it out so he makes sense to us

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