Good morning,
I wanted to edit the OP first, but I didn't manage to find the time.
I reflected on this and the problem was never really the antagonization. I am usually not very sensitive about things like this, so I was wondering why I was this annoyed at what I'd usually call a minor issue. Turns out, the problem was never with the insults.
it's what they implicate. If a harmless joke is all it takes to kick off a large discussion (and have the mod temporarily taken down at Fossic), even have people contact me on Discord about it - what is stopping the next misinterpretation from escalating further?
I can neither defend myself, nor stop anyone from spilling over into the western community, because the thread is in a language I can not read, and MTL does not work properly.
If I get accused of something even worse, how will I be able to handle it? Will people start slandering me on the .com forums as well? Will they haunt me on chat servers and *** with me? How long will it take to simmer down?
Your culture and mine are extremely different, misunderstandings are bound to happen, and does not take much for someone to blow an issue out of proportion. I do not intend to have my work removed from the fractalsoftworks forums over a misunderstanding. The only way I could think of to make sure that never happens, is if the mod just does not get translated - remove the interpretation problems, remove the risk.
This has always been about protecting my work, and I was being unfair towards your community - I apologize for that.
I do not wish for an apology or a clarification post on Fossic - the ones who caused this problem in the first place are not the people that are seeking dialogue now.
I can see a way to give permission - if, and only if - any translation work is done not directly, but interpreted. I don't care if the texts are perfectly accurate, the only thing I care about is that they can not be misunderstood and do not cause issues.
If there ever is another incident that ends with my ideology or motives questioned, with me being called racist, sexist or anything else -ist, if I am accused of anti-something behaviour, the mod is temporarily removed on fossic, and I notice it happening because people ask me about it in chats, I will rescind permission and have the mod taken down permanently.
This does not mean that no one can criticize me or the mod.
I do like feedback, and the Chinese community does bring up good points that I had not accounted for, simply by having another perspective. I also know that the tone and culture is rougher over there than it is here, and take no issue with it. Avoid politics, and everything will be fine.
Possibly relevant for undestanding:
If a mod gets taken down on fractalsoftworks.com / the western community, it means the author severely *** up and if they are lucky, they get a chance to fix it - not always.
There is also a culture of altercation here, but it is a lot more subtle than the Asian variant. As much as I was able to understand, if someone used the vocabulary you are familiar with in, the western chat, they would get banned pretty much immediately. What we call a quarrel, you would probably call normal conversation.