This post was inspired with fiery, but in my view wrong position on translations by our member 
What could be a source of this kind of thinking? I’ve been researching through Steemit just since last night, and it could be these two main reasons:
First: Not clearly defined reposting, or double-posting abuse by the group of 
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- Reposting the same content without additional original content or significant changes
- Reposting content within the same payout window
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This formulation allows wide (and wrong) interpretations with the people who are instinctively understand that something is wrong, but can’t exactly construct an efficient solution, calling upon ‘common sense’, like our
Second reason are complaints of those users who are feeling handicapped because they only speak one language. They do not discern between ‘googletrans’ abuse and a regular translation, which is a backbone of widening community with the users from other countries and hence promoting Steemit worldwide. Wasn’t the difference obvious?
Automatic translations, from Google, Yandex or anywhere else, are still far from perfect. You can’t make a sensible translation just using it, without a serious effort in redacting the text. Therefore, abusive double-posts are easy to detect. And the first who will punish this kind of abuse will be those native speakers who can’t take any use of those ‘Googletrans’. They will downvote it, or report it to
So, reposting content cannot be interpreted the same as reposting translated content. Translating a content in other languages is growing a wider circle of users, and that is good for community. We do all want as much new users as possible, don’t we? Discouraging translations by asking people to decline rewards on translation is not fair, and will take more of our reward pool in the long run. Who is going to find interest in efforts to give a proper translation and not getting anything for it? This is a way into many small and separate language communities where nobody can find value.
Translated text IS NOT THE SAME CONTENT. In law, a translation of a poem is considered another, new artwork. Book translation is a new author’s work and is protected by law as such. So, before you ask one more time a question…
Is it ok that a user who happens to know ten different languages, posts the same content ten times?
…the answer is YES! Everybody who invested in his/hers education to learn 10 languages and put his/hers knowledge to build communication bridges between communities at Steemit, deserves all rewards he can get. But if you ask…
Is it ok that a user who knows how to use Google translate (which in most cases is terrible, by the way), translates the same content ten times and posts ten times? How about 20? Or 50?
…then the answer is NO. That is abuse and should be downvoted. But it must be clear that “Google translate (which in most cases is terrible, by the way)” is NOT A TRANSLATION.
Proposed ‘solution’ that anyone who posts translations must decline rewards on them is neither fair nor realistic, because it will reject valuable members of our platform, and the abusers will not accept it — or they wouldn’t be abusers in the first place.
One more point: We can see how YouTube uses de-monetization as an effective way of censorship. Asking of the real translators to decline their deserved rewards is in effect, de-monetization of their work on this platform. It is an abuse in itself. It has the elements of obstruction of free speech. Think twice before you support such thinking:
Let’s see now how the wrong interpretation of the “community rules” are going in reality. Five days ago, we had a new member from Venezuela, Maite Marante, blogging as our 
Could she made both languages in the single post? Theoretically yes (it’s a short text), but you can’t expect that someone who just log in know how to do those things. It takes time.
I had a bit long discussion at Discord with one of the 
Does this mean that some people are better than others? Look at it from the perspective of a non-translator. How does that make you feel about your rewards in comparison to someone else who for some reason may publish twice what you see as the same content.
That means that some people have more education than others. And if they use that education for the benefit of community, they deserve rewards. That way we will incentivise those who know only one language to start learning. Making a platform preference for the whims of less educated is a road to disaster. We must not de-incentivise translations.
Then we are coming to the objective limitations. You can send a translation of a shorter texts in the same post, like this, whenever it is possible. But what will you do when you have a story that fills the limit of 64,000 characters? Like this one: Они Жабини. It cannot be translated in the same post even once! And would you think that the one who translates it does not deserve any reward just because there is a group abusing ‘googletrans’?
I had to remove and minimize text on my galleries of ballet photography because system does not accept post by some internal criteria.
Translation is not an abuse or spam/scam. Translation is a noble task, hard job which is allowing necessary bridge of communication between nations and cultures. It must not be treated as a source of abuse. I would suggest a specific format of Abuse Reports. This is a current Steemcleaners Abuse Form:
The abusers should be discouraged, but they cannot be discouraged by asking real translators to renounce their rewards. They are abusers and they will not listen to an ‘appeal’ for blocking their rewards. So, you can’t stop them by putting a translations in the same category as scam/spam. What you can do, is to put another, clear type in the Abuse form at Steemcleaners.com which currently have 11 types:
The missing type should be named
That way it would be clear that not every translation is a bad one, and only those who are really abusing the reward pool would be a legitimate target of Steemcleaners.com. Arbitrary interpretations would be prevented, and we could as a community pinpoint abusers. Native speakers who do not consider the translation useful could downvote it or report as what it is — a “googletrans” (automatic translation) abuse. Then
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