Should English be a conversational language on this forum?

Should we start responding to foreigners in English?

Why am I asking? Well, I've been thinking... it's getting harder to follow posts from all these different people from various parts of the old country—they all write in their own native tongues while I'm over here trying to be polite and stick to standard American English. But honestly, it feels pointless when they just keep typing away in their own languages, full of slang and local jargon that I can't make heads or tails of. So, I’ve actually started writing in my native American language, which is exactly what you're seeing right now.

In situations like this, if they don't know American, should they be forced to use English just so we can understand them?
If I can't understand them, should I just respond in English, something like: "I beg your pardon, sir, but could you repeat what you said just now, this time using English instead of your own local dialect? Thank you."

I mostly post in the Religion subforum, and since there are members from all sorts of backgrounds there, I think having English as an option is necessary to get everyone on the same page. Let's face it—as you guys can probably see—the topics in the Religion section are a total mess. Everything is disorganized, from the threads themselves down to the individual posts. I honestly wonder if the reason nobody understands anyone else is because of this language barrier.
Maybe that's why even the moderators can't keep up with everything, despite their best intentions to keep things orderly. I just want to say, kudos to the Religion mods—they really do everything they can to keep things clear, but when the language gets in the way, nothing else works. All we can do is throw out ideas like this.

Edit: I added a poll to see if you guys can even understand this post written in my native American language. That way, we can get a rough idea if we need to introduce a global language like English so we can actually communicate with those who don't understand this.

Thanks a ton, and I'm hoping for a positive response.

If we had someone like a powerhouse leader from the heartland, I guarantee they’d fix every single one of these issues in no time.

Kyle Carter2 said:Thanks a lot, and I'm hoping for a positive response.

You’re starting from a fundamentally flawed premise here. Honestly—if my interpretation of your text is off—that’s your issue, not mine 🙂.

In all seriousness: if someone crafts a forum post that ends up being unintelligible to certain readers, that’s on them—it won't be read, they won't get a response, and that’s really the extent of it. I can perhaps see how someone might raise the issue of language and clarity as a subtle way to try and ban certain dialects on an American forum 😁, but I just don't get those people who earnestly argue for mandatory linguistic standards under the guise that every single post must be universally understood by everyone
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I can only reiterate: this forum is absolutely littered with senseless, incomprehensible posts written in some sort of broken American slang (hey, sup, yo...), and it's packed with posts that are—to put it mildly—purely semantic violence against the English language... I see neither the mechanism nor the necessity to "groom" all those posts into coherent texts
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To be specific: I believe I understood this "baby talk" post of yours—maybe not perfectly, but I think I grasped enough to potentially offer a response. If you had written it in one of those obscure islander patoises, I wouldn't have understood it, I wouldn't have replied, and that would be that 🙂.