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RE: Is Google Translating Your Post a Viable Way to Earn STEEM?? Short Answer: No...

in #community8 years ago

I can't say I know much of anything about the Korean culture, largely because I can't read or write Korean. I had a friend that taught me about Buddhism before he passed, and I helped build his home.

I am very interested in various cultures, and have recently posted that I would like a feature that provided even bad translations of languages I don't read into English. I am aware that Google translate isn't perfect, and is utterly ignorant of cultural differences, but some understanding is better than none.

That being said, the rest of your post was spot on. Just slapping a post into a foreign language without any interest in the comments from that community isn't engagement, but pandering. The whole purpose of social media is engagement, and posts like that are the antithesis of forging bridges.

Thanks for a thought provoking post!