As a non-English living in a country where English is not even an official language, I strive to write good quality answers, either technically or in grammar. A good answer takes an investment of time to write. If someone is not willing to take some time to correct the English and research an answer, it is natural low-quality answers are not welcomed. It takes less work answering them ourselves than improving bad answers. Furthermore, what the owners are asking is that 90% of the users take care of the 10% that generates noise for free, and are telling the majority of the user base there are others that are more important than them.
I did not get out of my way to talk about his command of English, he is the one mentioning it about problems in other forums. I am not native, however if in an English forum, I will have to talk English. Otherwise, nothing prevents me from selecting forums in a language I am more proficient. Beware of the extremism in being politically correct. The truth will always be the truth.
As all the walks in life, you find everything and every culture. On one hand you also find people who simply want answers, however do not want to make the minimum investment in time writing something decent, and then you also find kids. I have had Indonesian kids going after my linked.in or fb profile and asking me for a connection. (Sorry, no kids in my fb, except if family)
meh. Loads of Asians pretending to be white women to see if they get away with more attention. Often in a while when they take photos we even see the reflection of the actual guy. They are have probably more "discrimination" for the bad questions than for being a "woman".
I was also born in a country "with a strong social system". The so called social system is in shambles, and contributing to it is basically contributing to a ponzi scam.
I got a couple of experiences worse than that, including one where they were stupid enough to put in writing a suggestion to enlist as a contractor/freelancer with a shadow organisation of them to match my requested range (which was nothing special)...I just replied in a sarcastic tone that for that situation my prices where 10 times that value, and fortunately, it was the last I heard from them.
My experience being interview by Amazon is mixed...I had a screening call + three phone interviews with Amazon, for an elite devops system/network team. They were amazing and very nice people, from the initial RH contact to the technicians evaluating me. Actually to be fair, EXTRA nice people. On the other hand, some other recruiter messed up, and put me with an interview that I only found out at the last minute it was for a system help desk position in some other occasion. That experience was horrible, and the technician who was supposed to conduct the interview missed it and passed on the interview to an indian employee which accent I barely could keep up with...I just did not abort the interview out of respect. What I would say is that they handle differently people that applies for the more important positions, and in that respect, they are not much more different from other big players in the industry. To give credit to Amazon, their hiring process seems to be saner than Google, where you get contacted by a lot of clueless 3rd party headhunters that try to coax senior people like me into lowly positions that do not match our experience.
It depends in the country really. In Portugal and Spain it is really that simple, you do not live more than 180 days in a year in the country, you are not tax resident.