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Are there any websites (not necessarily about discussing the English language or math) where to post you have to solve a captcha that tests your English or math ability? Would that be good in filtering ESL retards?
>>243212 (OP) 
Filtering ESL retards? Unless you exclusively communicate with old English and runic script you are spiritually an immigrant and have a Jewish soul
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>>243214
That's not funny, Pablo.
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>>243212 (OP) 
i think we need one to filter frogposters.
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>>243221
That picture was clearly made from the perspective of a Redditor/Discorder/etc, not an altchanner, as evident by ">n*gger", ">normalfag", etc.
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>>243245
You're not maverick for making "look at how much I DON'T try to fit in" your whole personality.
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>>243257
OCD faggot.
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>>243269
Is that your best comeback?
"OCD" is an attempt at making being an attentive person sound bad.
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>>243271
ignore him, he has 0 bitches and spends 12 hours a day on a single board curating posts.
>>243212 (OP) 
I've thought for a while that having a site that required all posts be in Latin would be a solid retard filter. But maybe machine translation could beat it, I don't know. I think most low-quality posters wouldn't be willing to take the extra step of translating just to read any of the posts, though.
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>>243384
>Latin
Atinlay isyay orfay omoshay. If you only want to talk to the four people who like that gods-forsaken tongue it would certainly cut out most other users, which includes most (maybe all) of the retards.
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>>243482
Doesn't strictly have to be Latin, but some sort of barrier to entry that excludes the stupid or the unlearned. This was less of an issue in the past when computers were rare and required more specialty knowledge, but now every fucking Indian with a cheap shitty phone can post anywhere. English as the global lingua franca is also not enough of a barrier, too many people speak it. Maybe you're right and Latin's too obscure, but I can't think of a better candidate language, and it's got some nice historical precedent as the language of learning in a past Europe.
It would be fine to just have a system that's hard to set up and not well known so as to keep retards out. Maybe Urbit is like that, but I wouldn't know because I've never been able to figure out what the hell Urbit is.
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Being an English speaking monolinguist must really suck. Latin is obscure outside of science. You may as well have an imageboard where all posts are required to be spelled sdrawkcab. Everyone would be using machine translation anyway since I doubt you can find too many Anons that speak it in already small sites.

If the current options aren't elitist enough, consider using accounts, like a private tracker. Mods would be able to see accounts but at least they wouldn't be visible to other users. That or get rid of the HTML portion of the site and make everyone communicate using JSON and REST clients. Make people solve quizzes kind of like a spam filter. Make people send DNA samples so you can verify they're white before letting them post.
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It's so frustrating trying to communicate with ESLs and discuss non-surface level ideas with them. They will always interpret words by their most common meaning, they won't get half of the idioms you throw at them, and they will use misleading grammatical structures that make it unclear what they mean, aside from making you constantly roll your eyes due to their moronic misspellings.

And by ESL I "people" bad at English, of course, not literally non-native speakers, as there are many of those who are fluent (such as me).

What even causes this? I reached English fluency just in a few years of using the internet as a teenager. Do these people mostly just browse their shitholes' local internet? Are their brains just less suited for language acquisition?
>>243523
esl cope
>>243523
Throwing idioms? Huh? What are idioms and how do you throw them?
To answer your question, I think the said esls have learned English in school only but have grown up consuming media (fiction and video games) only in their own language, mostly because everything has been translated/dubbed. See: France, Germany, Slavs, probably all Spanish and Portugese speaking countries. I remember reading an article about a famous German voice actor who dubbed live action movies. He and his stupid country should be thrown in a dumpster.

For me, a minor annoyance is when people from my country are too lazy to even try to pronounce English properly, even if they have good understanding of the grammar. Hearing the worst of it rapes my ears. Teachers probably aren't demanding enough these days. 

t: someone who suffered seeing parts of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home dubbed in Spanish
>243523
>Muttmerican thinks his brown opinion matters
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>>243523
It's more than just language, it's culture. Don't underestimate the cultural differences even between people that grew up speaking the same language in the same country. ESLs are often more fluent than natives. This is because they've had to study instead of growing up with it and have another language to reference. I've worked with native English speakers in an office environment that were incomprehensible through text and insisted on communicating only through speech. They couldn't read without speaking out loud and when they did write, they would do it phonetically instead of orthographically. In other words, they'd confuse "its" and "it's" and write words like "before" as "be for". This was irritating because I grew up preferring to communicate through text. Ironically, these kinds of people are the ones that grew up being socialized instead of isolated. They grew up playing sports instead of video games. Often, these were the "gangster" types who thought knowing how to read was for fags. Poor literacy leads to leftism because illiterates can't tell the difference in language ability between races. It's easier to be a leftist when you think reading is for fags and write like a pajeet.
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>>243545
Nordic countries and the Dutch have an unfair advantage when learning English as the grammar is similar or close to English, word for word especially in the beginning
People call me esl, but I only know English
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>>243549
Time to learn another language then
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>>243555
I don't think I have the capacity, plus why?
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