but it does not get in front of hypothetical me who is interested in sports by clicking on sports, even if I am someone who understands chinese.
Should I now look into sports, english sports, german sports and chinese sports? Maybe netherlands-sports too and switz sports and aussie sports because I can all understand them?
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Well, im pretty sure aussies speak english and swiss sports would mostly be in german, so were onlhy talking about 4 languages. But yeah, i see your point.
I guess mine is that sure, if youre interested in sports news in dutch, german, english and chinese, you ought to look in sports-dutch sports-german sports-english (which realistically would jsut be sports) and sports-chinese.
HEre's my point though. Imagine steem has 100 english sports posts, 100 german sports posts, 100 chinese sports posts and 100 dutch sports posts per day. Thats 400 posts a day.
If these are meaningfully seperated, its a little more work for you. You have to check 4 different tags to get all the sports news youre looking for (which is 3 more than you would h ave to check if they were all together)
Now, consider the sports fan that speaks exclusively english. With the tags seperated, he can get his sports news in one tag. But for him, when the tags are combined, he has a sports section that, to him, is 75% gibberish, and no realistic way to filter out what (to him) is noise.
As a side note though, though its awesome that you speak and read regularly in different languages, most people do not. And even among the people that do, most people have one dominant language that they read most of their news/entertainment in. I speak japanese , spanish and some hebrew in addition to english, but i don't seek my news or leisure reading in those languages. My feeling (and i freely admit i cant back this up with evidence) is that even most polyglots are normally only looking to read one language when they come to a site like steem.