forum Create topics and posts without auto-translation

[The_GTA]

Dear MTA forums administration,

there appears to be a fair amount of users on our forums that auto-translate all of the content on this web-page. Support topics start with the impression that they are awkwardly-speaking-but-trying English speakers but in replies the quotes turn out to be Spanish, Polish, etc giving away that they actually auto-translate everything. There are people who do not know about this problem because they just set the auto-translator for everything English. Those people suffer from issues of understanding, essentially because the auto-translator botches-up the original writing.

I suggest that users should have the ability to decide whether their forums posts should be posted using auto-translation disabled on the HTML elements. This can be done using the HTML translate attribute on div tags. I suggest that there be a new option in the user's preferences to put this attribute on all of their posts by default. Then you should be able to decide on an individual post's basis if auto-translation should be allowed.

Please think about the future of our forums. 

Edited January 20, 2022 by The_GTA