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Limit number of KudoZ questions?
Initiator des Themas: Ineke Hardy
Kirill Semenov
Kirill Semenov  Identity Verified
Ukraine
Local time: 14:52
Mitglied (2004)
Englisch > Russisch
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BrowniZ are too easy to get Jul 28, 2006

Ineke Hardy wrote:
To encourage a little more give and take and motivate the lazy ones, why not impose limits on free questions (p.e. 1 a day for Platinum, 1 a week for the rest of us) and allow for unlimited questions against payment of browniz?


The idea was discussed before. BrowniZ points are too easy to get. To put it on a real give-and-take basis, the questions allowed should be connected to KudoZ earned.

[Edited at 2006-07-28 21:03]


 
Nikki Graham
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Vereinigtes Königreich
Local time: 12:52
Spanisch > Englisch
Sorry to be dim, but... Jul 29, 2006

Enrique wrote:

The limit on open questions was not working. I opened a ticket some time ago and it got solved. There may be profiles with many open questions, but nobody should be able to post new questions if (s)he has 10 or more questions open (with at least an answer) older than a week.

I am testing the weekly limit, this takes some time to do, in fact a week

Regards,
Enrique


I sent a support ticket recently about someone who had many open questions and was still posting and was told everything was in order. I'm not sure I quite understand all this. If someone has 23 open questions, can they still post? I guess what I'm trying to ask is, when we see how many questions someone has open in KuodoZ, when should that number trigger an alarm that something is not working properly?


 
writeaway
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Französisch > Englisch
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Not because they are plat but because they became plat in order to ask the max. number of questions Jul 29, 2006

Ineke Hardy wrote:

I totally agree with Nadia. But I also get the strong impression that certain Platinum members cannot be bothered to spend the time to do their own research. If I can find an answer to a question in a field I know nothing about by doing a 10 minute Google search, what does that say about the asker? In my opinion, the question of reasonable limits to be imposed needs to be revisited by the Proz.com powers that be.


Yes-there are loads of people who haven't discovered how to open dictionaries or use the www other than to access Proz. Or they see the site as a golden opportunity to accept jobs they really can't do without posting large chunks to be done by colleagues who do have the necessary skills -in the field, in the language or whatever.
Limits were orginally introduced to help stop these people but the current limits are too high and so they continue. On some sites (am thinking of one of my sites in particular), there are people who appear daily (they are translating into a foreign language) with a series of questions (on the same job), much to the apparent joy of eager points-seekers who are there to answer each question. In the end, these daily askers/answers become a sort of 'team' and really should just work together off the site. If help is all that matters and not Kudoz points, that shouldn't be a problem.


 
HarryHedgehog
HarryHedgehog
Deutschland
Local time: 13:52
Deutsch > Englisch
Can we please shrink the question (term) field as well, while we're at it? Jul 29, 2006

Sorry if this is hijacking the thread, but I think this is a relevant point: In my language combination, I've seen 4 examples of people asking for translations of entire sentences in the past 24 hours - although this is a direct violation of KudoZ rules - and the point-hounds are all too willing to provide answers.

I can't speak for everyone, but this really makes me feel like some people are (ab)using others to do their work for them, and it sickens me that the answerers are rewar
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Sorry if this is hijacking the thread, but I think this is a relevant point: In my language combination, I've seen 4 examples of people asking for translations of entire sentences in the past 24 hours - although this is a direct violation of KudoZ rules - and the point-hounds are all too willing to provide answers.

I can't speak for everyone, but this really makes me feel like some people are (ab)using others to do their work for them, and it sickens me that the answerers are rewarded (albeit with worthless KudoZ points) for their collaboration in violating the rules. It also pollutes the glossary with vapid crap.

I therefore propose shrinking the question field to 50 characters - that should be enough to deal with even the longest of terms in any language I know of. If there there is a valid need for a specific language, perhaps the field could then be expanded again for that language.

Yours,
HH

[Edited at 2006-07-29 21:08]
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Enrique Cavalitto
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Argentinien
Local time: 08:52
Mitglied (2006)
Englisch > Spanisch
The limit works on qustions older than a week Jul 29, 2006

Nikki Graham wrote:

Enrique wrote:

The limit on open questions was not working. I opened a ticket some time ago and it got solved. There may be profiles with many open questions, but nobody should be able to post new questions if (s)he has 10 or more questions open (with at least an answer) older than a week.

I am testing the weekly limit, this takes some time to do, in fact a week

Regards,
Enrique


I sent a support ticket recently about someone who had many open questions and was still posting and was told everything was in order. I'm not sure I quite understand all this. If someone has 23 open questions, can they still post? I guess what I'm trying to ask is, when we see how many questions someone has open in KuodoZ, when should that number trigger an alarm that something is not working properly?


Hi Nikki,

Users can't keep asking when they have 10 or more open questions that are older than a week.

You could ask 10 questions per day during 3 days and have 30 open questions, no problems with that, but on day 8 you would be prevented from asking if you still have open the 10 first questions.

Regards,
Enrique


 
Ineke Hardy
Ineke Hardy
Niederlande
Local time: 13:52
Afrikaans > Englisch
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Limits Jul 30, 2006



I therefore propose shrinking the question field to 50 characters - that should be enough to deal with even the longest of terms in any language I know of.


I quite agree. On the other hand, rather than getting 27 questions on the same text, we might as well get the whole text at once to save our Plat members the trouble (I noticed that one of the people on my language list has already asked 129 questions!). The upside is, of course, that it's instructive and often fun to look for and debate terms and in the end, I don't HAVE to answer questions. What does annoy me is that the list gets too long and cluttered, and bona fide askers don't get the attention they deserve (I've asked 2 questions in the past 5 yrs). Back to: limit the number of questions a single person can ask. Note to ProZ ExeC: anybody listening?


 
Enrique Cavalitto
Enrique Cavalitto  Identity Verified
Argentinien
Local time: 08:52
Mitglied (2006)
Englisch > Spanisch
Keeping the weekly limits Jul 31, 2006

In view of the quick polls results we have decided to keep the current weekly limits at their current levels of 60 for members and 20 for non-members.

Regards,
Enrique


 
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