gmads wrote: ↑Mon Oct 24, 2022 3:24 am
Ady wrote: ↑Sun Oct 23, 2022 11:45 pm
gmads wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 6:10 am
Mh... what do you mean? Once the button is clicked, a new thread is created, without any other kind of entries, as you may confirm by checking the thread I just put, or any of the unanswered sentence threads. Or maybe the extension has been updated; I don't know.
Since each press of the DuoMe browser extension script button immediately brought up not only an auto-generated post by sentence-bot, but also a spot for me to enter a post, I was under the impression that I had to enter something in order for anything to get posted (i.e. that the post by sentence-bot was a draft that would not be actually submitted unless I also submitted a following post).
I now see the sentence-bot post is posted regardless of whether I use the prompt for a post from me.
That's right. The thread is created regardless of what one does afterward. If one does nothing an unanswered sentence thread is created —and that's why there can be unanswered sentences—, however, if one writes something the post is added to the thread, which is then moved to the respective language forum.
From my point of view, the extension should create a thread only if the user actually writes anything, otherwise it should simply do nothing.
I sincerly think this ever-growing list of unanswered sentences is utterly useless: a month ago there were 53 pages of unanswered sentence discussions, now there are 66.
I think the term 'unanswered' is misleading here, actually. The posts made by 'sentence bot' contain a sentence and a translated version of the sentence, nothing unanswered.** I would call that just un-commented-on, or (better English) unaddressed.
(**This line of thinking is why I originally assumed a sentence-bot post shown would not actually be posted until I entered a following post (potentially an actual question).)
I would say a sentence thread can only really be called 'unanswered' if, after the 'sentence bot' post, there is a human-entered post actually containing a question. ...and yet the way things work right now, if anyone adds a post to a sentence thread that thread gets taken out of the 'unanswered' pile!
Right now the 'unanswered questions' area looks like somewhere a helpful person could dive in and help some fellow language learners. At least the fact that all of the languages are lumped together does a bit to help dispel that notion.
I suggest renaming the 'unanswered sentences' area 'unaddressed sentences', or even more clearly 'sentences with no comments yet'.
(Actually I'd also change 'sentences' to 'passages' (or maybe 'lessons'), since there definitely are ones with more than one sentence, but I know that's off-topic!)