Suggestion: Forum guidelines and a general strike system

You sum up what I feel about foreign languanges in this website.

WTF

And, part two, I'd just like to say that you haven't really given any reasons to support banning other languages. The site would gain nothing and lose something, and your talk about "shrouding illegal activity" doesn't correspond to anything I've seen on the forums. Hell, I can't remember the last time I saw someone use a language other than English on here. Point(s) B is pretty much just your opinion, Point C doesn't really come into play, and Point A is an unsubstantiated claim that, again, gives no good reason to require English.

The language issue could be solved with a subsection on the forum for non-English speakers. There wouldn't be as much support for them, but it could be a community managed section.

English is one of the easiest languages to learn, are you kidding me? It's pretty concise grammatically, compared to most languages.

It might not be the easiest, but it's definitely one of the easier languages to learn.
Why would it be discriminating? The whole site is in English and there is no way to change the language, so why should the community suddenly start using different languages? Quite the contrary! I think it's kinda rude to join an English speaking community and only talk in my native tongue.

I don't like the idea of provisions for giveaways. If the giver doesn't want to let everyone enter, they should make it private. Or there could be some sort of mark separating them from the general giveaways.

It seems kind of silly to worry about all these hypothetical situations where people /might/ try to take advantage of their minority status. There is a thing called Google Translate, and it works plenty well enough to enable moderation and/or comprehension of conditions.

I also thought it was common knowledge that English was hard... But maybe he just meant it's one of the easiest to find opportunities to learn (internet, movies, classes, etc).

One of the less rich grammars I've learn, and I've learn 5 languages and several other languages' grammar are my acquaintances.

Honestly, then you've just heard wrong. It is definitely one of the easier languages and to be honest I couldn't think of a single language that is harder to learn.

The ease of learning languages depends on the cultural background of the person. Despite the inner complexities (alphabet or no alphabet, phonetic hint or no phonetic hint) of the language, there are babies learning them and toddlers speaking them.
What really makes a language hard to learn is a different alphabet (as in Japanese, Greek, Arabic, and Russian) or reading order.

Really there's no objective fact about what language is hard to learn.

Maybe there is

I can never tell if you're joking or not...

Also, on the rest of the point, mainly the 3 strikes system.

3 strikes works only in Baseball. And even then, without trying other systems in baseball we can't be certain it's the best system. Usually banpoints work best whereby a person can receive banpoints at the discretion of the mod to the extent that a mod feels appropriate and when the banpoints reach a threshold the person is flagged for review and potential banning by a higher up.

Because most of all it'd be really stupid to kick some shit from the site entirely for doing a few stupid thigns here and there. And even if the bans cleared on their own after a set point it would still be overly simplified, because everything equals 1 strike. Yes, some things could be warnings, but what it would come down to would be like this:

Strike Don't enter for games you have
Strike Don't trade games you win
Strike Only one SG account allowed per person, so if you have two steam accounts, you still only get one SG account.
Strike Don't enter for anyone other than yourself
Warning Don't use the site as a way around regional pricing
Strike Do NOT sell/trade invites
Warning Always thank submitters
Strike Do not submit exploited games/keys (Dark Messiah of Might & Magic Multiplayer, Eets, etc)
Strike Do not submit Steam accounts.
Warning Please make sure the people YOU invite follow these rules

Now, as you notice, some of these seem either too low or too high of a penalty, and obviously if someone keeps up with doing the same thing, he should be punished more than if someone were to... Submit an exploited game and enter a giveaway for a game he wants his friend to play with him (but not win it). That right there is anywhere from 2 to 4 strikes. And all he did was not read the rules the second he joined. His first thoughts were "I wonder what I can do here to help Others." Why ban someone for coming to the site and wanting to help people?

In an ideal situation he'd receive a few banpoints with a note as to the reason for them, and based solely on the judgment of the mod. Or maybe even just a warning if the mod were feeling especially nice. These banpoints would likely eventually expire, or maybe even be worked off over time by being a productive member of the forums that other members notice and flag as a good member for something he does. Like if they notice a really good suggestion by him they might "+1" that post and when a certain amount of posts are +1'ed by unique members, it removes banpoints.

Although truly, the best way is to handle each member on an individual basis dealing with each case differently.