Is there a way to only view English results?

[Dragon Sin]

I have no problem with people of all languages using forums to their heart's content, as steam is an international platform for all users, but I think it's irrelevant for someone who doesn't speak or read a certain language to see tons of threads in discussions that they can't understand.

I understand that some games have language based subforums, but for those that don't (for example I just recently looked through the DayZ discussions) there were pages and pages of only non-english discussions. As I can't read them, I would like a way to filter them out as they are essentially something completely worthless to my purposes.

Please note, I have no problem (as some of the other people posting similar topics do) with those threads existing, as they are crucial for the other players who do speak other languages. It just seems like I should be able to filter my personal view to exclude things I in no way could understand.

[crunchyfrog]

Your best bet is to write this in the Suggestions forum here.

Although I would add, not for individual games' forums particularly, but certainly on these help pages, having all lanugauges available are beneficial as it assists with getting help and many of us can speak other languages.

[Sazzouu]

The problem is simple:
There are only two possibilities...

1. They use language filters on the search function
   
2. They enforce marking your thread with a certain language

The first option is merely impossible basically because there are several words spelled equally but mean different things in different languages.

The second one is quite difficult because either they really ENFORCE it by letting you click a checkbox or what ever which will be an annoying feature for the most part of the community or they make it "optionally" by setting a default language but that will lead to the same problem as you currently have with it.

So afterall I would say your desired filtering options are more or less impossible to realize. However it is only the gameforums that are multilingual if not defined eitherway. Steam Discussion Forums like the one we are currently in are not which means if you find a thread in said language you can report it and it will be moved over to its fitting forum. Same goes for gameforum threads when there are language subforums

[Dragon Sin]

Originally posted by BeatZ:

The problem is simple:
There are only two possibilities...

1. They use language filters on the search function
   
2. They enforce marking your thread with a certain language

The first option is merely impossible basically because there are several words spelled equally but mean different things in different languages.

The thing is many languages use a completely separate set of characters, so they very easily could add an optional filter for that. As for an option it's quite simple. Have users define their language within the account and have a separate option within steam to filter search results based on that.

Also, while some words are similar in many languages, none are exact, and there are many, many other sites that can automatically identify languages and see the differences. At the very least they could add in a google translate feature to the forums.

[JVC]

Originally posted by Dragon Sin:

Originally posted by BeatZ:

The problem is simple:
There are only two possibilities...

1. They use language filters on the search function
   
2. They enforce marking your thread with a certain language

The first option is merely impossible basically because there are several words spelled equally but mean different things in different languages.

The thing is many languages use a completely separate set of characters, so they very easily could add an optional filter for that. As for an option it's quite simple. Have users define their language within the account and have a separate option within steam to filter search results based on that.

Also, while some words are similar in many languages, none are exact, and there are many, many other sites that can automatically identify languages and see the differences. At the very least they could add in a google translate feature to the forums.

Google translate is a travesty in many languages. And counting on separate alphabets doesn't work, many languages, my own included, use the Latin alphabet with a few extra characters. If I add my native æ, ø and å to a text, a script wouldn't know if I was speaking Danish, Norwegian or Faroese.

It is a lot simpler for people simply to ignore messages written in languages they don't speak.

[Dragon Sin]

Originally posted by JVC:

Google translate is a travesty in many languages. And counting on separate alphabets doesn't work, many languages, my own included, use the Latin alphabet with a few extra characters. If I add my native æ, ø and å to a text, a script wouldn't know if I was speaking Danish, Norwegian or Faroese.

It is a lot simpler for people simply to ignore messages written in languages they don't speak.

It’s hard to ignore when you’re trying to find English threads and there’s 10+ pages of non English threads in a row, also, that would still help English speakers, and my other solution is still viable.

Also, google translate is very capable at detecting languages, at least in the sense of seeing whether or not it is a specific language.

[InnerPhoenix]

its quiet pathetic thats its 2021 and steam doesnt have more langues options for things

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by InnerPhoenix:

its quiet pathetic thats its 2021 and steam doesnt have more langues options for things

Not at all. It needs demonstrating that this is required first. I've been on here for ten years or so on and off, and this is the first time I've ever heard this request. So we're talking a REAL minimal fraction of people who are requesting it.

So what about those that want the contrary? The inclusion of as many languages as possible as it's meant to be discussions for help?

[YezMaam]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Originally posted by InnerPhoenix:

its quiet pathetic thats its 2021 and steam doesnt have more langues options for things

Not at all. It needs demonstrating that this is required first. I've been on here for ten years or so on and off, and this is the first time I've ever heard this request. So we're talking a REAL minimal fraction of people who are requesting it.

So what about those that want the contrary? The inclusion of as many languages as possible as it's meant to be discussions for help?

Dude is just asking for a toggle option. If you don’t want to use it, you don’t have to. It’s really not that deep.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Originally posted by Matt:

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Not at all. It needs demonstrating that this is required first. I've been on here for ten years or so on and off, and this is the first time I've ever heard this request. So we're talking a REAL minimal fraction of people who are requesting it.

So what about those that want the contrary? The inclusion of as many languages as possible as it's meant to be discussions for help?

Dude is just asking for a toggle option. If you don’t want to use it, you don’t have to. It’s really not that deep.

All that text and you couldn't be bothered to look at the posting date.

[Dragon Sin]

Originally posted by Big Bridge.mp4:

All that text and you couldn't be bothered to look at the posting date.

lol, can't believe this thread popped up again

Still think it's a good idea to implement though, especially for early access games that have large multinational followings.

[Clement]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.