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| User | Thread poster: Tomas Mosler Is making random answers in many pairs acceptable, or KudoZ spam? |
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Tomas Mosler 
Czech Republic
Local time: 16:28
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English to Czech
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I'm not sure how much can I indicate the username/ID, but there is one Turkish-English translator here who kind of makes random answers to random KudoZ questions in different language pairs.
Looking on his answers from today only, he was able to provide answers in such distinct pairs (in addition to eng-tur) as por-eng, ara-eng, dut-fra, deu-rus, eng-ron, deu-esl, eng-ita, fra-eng, eng-ces.
I don't know how about other languages, but in the En-Cz pair his answer is completely off-track (I suspect some involvement of MT). As such, it is rather a spam than anything useful - it doesn't look much like "giving help". Is this "batch cross-language KudoZ action" normal?
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Teresa Borges
Belgium
Local time: 16:28
Member (2007)
German to Portuguese
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| | The same "phenomenon" happens... | Apr 19, 2011 |
... with a Greek translator!
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xxxIPtranslate
Brazil
English to Dutch
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| | Noticed that... | Apr 19, 2011 |
and agree with the statement that the replies are usually completely off-track!
[Edited at 2011-04-19 09:22 GMT]
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writeaway
Local time: 16:28
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Dutch to English
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| | Not acceptable but allowed and accepted | Apr 19, 2011 |
Tomas Mosler wrote:
I'm not sure how much can I indicate the username/ID, but there is one Turkish-English translator here who kind of makes random answers to random KudoZ questions in different language pairs.
Looking on his answers from today only, he was able to provide answers in such distinct pairs (in addition to eng-tur) as por-eng, ara-eng, dut-fra, deu-rus, eng-ron, deu-esl, eng-ita, fra-eng, eng-ces.
I don't know how about other languages, but in the En-Cz pair his answer is completely off-track (I suspect some involvement of MT). As such, it is rather a spam than anything useful - it doesn't look much like "giving help". Is this "batch cross-language KudoZ action" normal? |
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Fwiw, the 'answers' into English are also generally (way) off-track. Sadly, he is not the only person doing this. The fact people are allowed to produce total nonsense, in large or small doses, helps explain why Kudoz has become more a source of amusement than a source of help.
But beware-say nothing about their participation in a peer comment or elsewhere on the page. Rule 3.7 is there to protect them.
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Diana Coada
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:28
Member (2010)
English to Romanian
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| | We all know who he is | Apr 19, 2011 |
and not even the disagrees he gets seem to stop him..
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xxxIPtranslate
Brazil
English to Dutch
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writeaway wrote:
But beware-say nothing about their participation in a peer comment or elsewhere on the page. Rule 3.7 is there to protect them. |
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or Rule x.y or Rule s.t, or Rule v.w....Amusement, indeed...
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Ambrose Li
Canada
Local time: 10:28
Member (2011)
Chinese to English
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| | Talk about disagrees | Apr 19, 2011 |
Diana Coada wrote:
and not even the disagrees he gets seem to stop him.. |
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Some might start disagreeing with your answers once you started giving him disagrees…
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Tomas Mosler
Czech Republic
Local time: 16:28
Member (2008)
English to Czech
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| Rule 3.7 is there to protect them. |
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Yeah, but what about the rule 1.1 to protect US?
"Help" and glossary-building KudoZ are provided only for terms help and glossary building respectively. Use of the platform for advertising, discussions, or purposes other than getting or giving help with terms is prohibited.
His answers are apparently exactly as much help as getting spam, I say. Could any moderator / admin express the ProZ standing on this kind of behaviour?
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Paul Stevens
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:28
Member (2003)
Spanish to English
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His website is an interesting read too, with poor English abounding and at least one somewhat comical typo!
[Edited at 2011-04-19 09:33 GMT]
[Edited at 2011-04-19 09:49 GMT]
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Catherine GUILLIAUMET
France
Local time: 16:28
Member
English to French
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| | Indeed, this is not acceptable | Apr 19, 2011 |
... but what to do, if the staff itself cannot control this "poly-misanswerer"?
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Valeria Sciarrillo
Italy
Local time: 16:28
Partial member (2010)
English to Italian
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| | Greek translator | Apr 19, 2011 |
@Teresa: this Greek translator just answered completely wrong a question I was trying to answer, and when I disagreed, explaining the reason, they even hid their answer and gave another one, which is possibly right, even (it just got an "agree"!) :'( I don't like it when they "guess right", because points might give them more credibility than they actually deserve (seen their completely random and hasty answers). It's OK when a competent translator does this, but I hate having helped people who just guess all the time.
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Tomas Mosler
Czech Republic
Local time: 16:28
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English to Czech
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| ... but what to do, if the staff itself cannot control this "poly-misanswerer"? |
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I believe they can. They can warn him (based on rule 1.1) and if that does not help, block access to KudoZ (in general or except for his pairs).
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writeaway
Local time: 16:28
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Dutch to English
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| | But how does rule 1.1 apply to constantly guessing with 100% incorrect answers? | Apr 19, 2011 |
Tomas Mosler wrote:
| ... but what to do, if the staff itself cannot control this "poly-misanswerer"? |
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I believe they can. They can warn him (based on rule 1.1) and if that does not help, block access to KudoZ (in general or except for his pairs). |
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1.1 "Help" and glossary-building KudoZ are provided only for terms help and glossary building respectively. Use of the platform for advertising, discussions, or purposes other than getting or giving help with terms is prohibited.
However this will stop you from even saying boo:
3.7 Commentary on askers or answerers , and their postings or decisions to post, is not allowed. Comments or insinuations concerning an answerer's or asker's experience or profile, his/her decision to post a certain question or answer, grade or close a question in a certain way, make a certain glossary entry, etc., are strictly prohibited (whether posted publicly, made directly to the person in question, or made to another site user).
[Edited at 2011-04-19 10:03 GMT]
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Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
Local time: 23:28
Member (2005)
English to Japanese
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| | Nothing could be done | Apr 19, 2011 |
As long as this person is not breaking the rules, there is nothing that could be done. And I recently found out that even if someone breaks a rule(s), say, making an offensive, personal/non-linguistic comments or comments to influence the asker's decision to choose which answer (which are by the way all strictly forbidden according to the KudoZ rules), site staff will not intervene. And it's not a spam, since I know that this person does not have any bad intentions, but only pure intention to help the asker.
[Edited at 2011-04-19 10:09 GMT]
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Tomas Mosler
Czech Republic
Local time: 16:28
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English to Czech
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