Hi everyone, 

Today I just wanted to share something that, if put in place, could be vital to steemit's success.

Recently, people from all over the world have been joining steemit. The most popular countries being South Korea, Germany, Russia and India according to the statistics I found from another fellow steemit user. Although the majority of the community speaks English, this gives us no reason to turn our back on the other countries that provide outstanding blogs on steemit. Steemit is one big massive community and what we don't want happening is monolingual people only being able to read/understand posts in their own language. This leading to many quality posts being undervalued, purely because someone won't upvote what they don't understand!

Therefore, I present to you the idea of... A translation button.

The benefits of a translation button...

It could convince people from other countries to join!

People from different countries will want to join the steemit community and having a translation button will make them want to join even more. This being because their work will be translated into all the necessary languages to suit the diverse users that steemit comprises of. 

Increases quality and easiness of work

I don't know a lot of people who do this but let's take @aidancloquell for example. He, along with his father @mallorcaman (being bilingual) almost always translate their work into English which is amazing and honourable! However, if there was a translation button, posting would be made it so much easier for these guys and everyone else who's first language that isn't English! Also, the quality of work would be made better for everyone as well because it would prevent spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes etc when translating into another language. 

People can find work in other languages which before they couldn't read. 

At the moment I like vlogs but I feel like there isn't enough content out there. However, if there was a translation button I could easily find more vloggers because I would be able to understand their content and they can do the same with our content.

Increases the sharing and learning of each other's cultures

With the strength of the translation button, people's cultures will be more clearly shown, which will give people a better insight into each other's lifestyles. For me, this is the most interesting benefit by far! If we could all gain a better knowledge of each others background and culture, I am sure this will increase our depth of understanding of people in bad situations.

Thank you for reading

Hope you are all having a fantastic week. 

Jonathan and Matthew.