Talk:Easter eggs

Portal reference section
OK so User:Majr, User:Skylinerw, and I have been having a mini edit war over Easter eggs, specifically my edit to the Portal reference section.

OK so here's my rationale for reverting back to adding that:


 * 1) Languages may not be Mojang-written content, but they are Mojang-approved content. In other words if Mojang approved it, yes technically it's community content but it might as well be Mojang because if it's not something _they_ would've written it wouldn't be in the game. It's not as if the community could put anything they want in there (eg machine translations/spam).
 * 2) There's already a language section above. Both of those are Easter eggs ie non-essential additional fun content added to the game _by Mojang_.

So that's why I believe adding my sentence in is important. Let me know what you think.

—benjabean1 (talk) 23:52, 2 April 2016 (UTC)


 * There actually were some issues with people getting spam and derogatory terms approved in translations a few years ago. Several users were eventually banned, and Mojang had to add restrictions to the crowdsourced translation process. While Mojang approves which languages are used, they exercise very little control over the content of the translations. So the presence of Pirate Speak and Lolcat as available languages is a notable easter egg, but the actual text in those languages is not. -- Orthotopetalk 01:22, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Aha. Thanks for clearing it up. —benjabean1 (talk) 01:30, 3 April 2016 (UTC)