I was on the server one day and a huge group of players were speaking in Polish. I wanted to be able to converse with them but was unable to because I would have to be using google translator constantly. And I asked them to speak English, but they didn't understand me, or didn't understand how to speak English. Most people would ban these guys, or mute them, or force them to talk in another channel.

I decided to take a different approach this time.

I did some custom plugin work. Now, any time someone uses
/lang en
they will only see text that has been translated to English. And if they try
/lang pl or /lang ja
the text will be translated into polish or japanese.

Then, in case the translations are a bit wacky, I make it so people can still see the original text the other people typed in as long as they hover on the : symbol.

[1][Rank] Name : <---- hover on that thing to see the original message they typed.


It will bring the server together, I'm sure. Tomorrow when they come on I look forward to trying this out.
What do you think of this approach? Would you use it on your server?