Been a little busy yesterday to reply to this topic. I have approached both r1s2g3 and erikalui for helping me out in revealing the fake translators and the result was
Overview of Fake Hindi Translators in the Indian Board. Probably most of them were aware of the fake translations taking place in the Indian Board, but not much reported them nor the action were taken by moderator and the DT to tag them or remove those topics. r1s2g3 triggered the wrong translation work and erikalui spent their time to provide the evidences. The translators are getting out of control in the board, and even though if I report those posts they are not being removed. I do mention my topic as a reference in the comment while I report but to the contrary they are not being removed.
I used to report to Benson first who was the Indian mod but he also used to take no action and it will be tough for the global mods to deal with it as they don't understand Hindi. Only once one topic got deleted for using automated tools but that was because the project manager complained I guess else all others go unnoticed.
I am aware that Benson wasn't really taking any measures when he was a MOD to prevent the abuse and with the increase in the ICO's and Bounties in 2017-2018 the fake translators have risen enormously in the Indian Board too. The translators are receiving easy money by just shitting all over the board with their filthy translation spams.
As far as I have figured out
Greek moderator mitzie and other global mods like
rickbig handles my reports most of the time. I am quite sure few of the local board mods are acting as a global moderator in the shadows without having an official title. Since there isn't really a moderator for the board right now, we need to depend upon global mods and DT people by providing enough evidences and helping them to clean the board.
The translated topics in the Indian Board are quite easier to find out since they are most probably being translated by Google Translators which doesn't add any real meaning to the topic.
Situation 1 :The Indian Board is literally very terrible right now, but they are atmost readable to an extent. I report quite often and within a day or two they would be handled. Brand New Members who are not Indians are using the situation (A board with no MOD) to promote their shit. At times, a group of spammers just like the Chitauri clan rush inside the board and spam with the same messages unless they are being reported and nuked.
Situation 2 :2 weeks back, a group of Brand New accounts came to the board, necro-bumped 3-4 year old dead topics and posted a bitcointalk link. Once I clicked through the bitcointalk link, they linked to a fake phishing Electrum software download. All of a sudden I reported all these topics (should have been 5+) and they were removed the following day. The problem is that, we Indians are diversified and very few of them are non-spamming people. Most of them indulge in Bounties, Scams and spamming the forum endlessly in the Altcoin Subs.
For example, user
sellinglegandaryaccount is using multiple local language (almost more then 5 different languages). May be its possible he/she know all languages and also there suspicion that he/she is using automated translation tools.
Such situations happen quite a few times in the Indian Board too but they can be left aside. I have seen a user posting translated announcements in more than 3-4 languages but they seem to translate only one project. So they should have been an employee of the project and post topics related to the project which cannot be considered as a translation abuse.
P.S If theymos cannot appoint a MOD, he could better delete the board. It is becoming worse than the Off-Topic and Archival board
