Instead of that infamous NFP let's use a random roll, say, from 0 to 4 points!
Frankly speaking I really doubt that having this feature removed will make my or someone else's day.
YOU are to choose, so do it wisely: if you feel like answering and have an idea then you could answer else just go by and look alive. What is the problem?
Unfortunately, I find KudoZ rather useless for instead giving the answer peers often have to struggle to prove their own variant! Also I see many people answering in 'Discussion' and only after approving by Asker they may post the answer... Perhaps it's a way out?
Anyway, I find it much easier to search the Internet or ask the Client
Cheers.
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Jack Doughty United Kingdom Local time: 15:33 Member (2000) Russian to English + ...
To DZiW
Jun 26, 2011
What is "RPG"? I can only think of "rocket-propelled grenade", and if that's what you mean, I don't get it!
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Mirella Soffio Italy Local time: 16:33 Member (2002) English to Italian + ...
Role-playing games
Jun 26, 2011
Jack Doughty wrote:
What is "RPG"? I can only think of "rocket-propelled grenade", and if that's what you mean, I don't get it!
Nothing so dangerous
RPGs are role-playing games. See
In RPGs (the "paper and pen", or board-game variety), the player rolls a die (or dice) to determine the outcome of an action or battle.
[Edited at 2011-06-26 19:09 GMT]
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Mirella Soffio Italy Local time: 16:33 Member (2002) English to Italian + ...
sorry
Jun 26, 2011
double posting
[Edited at 2011-06-26 19:09 GMT]
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Yasutomo Kanazawa Japan Local time: 23:33 Member (2005) English to Japanese + ...
@Jack
Jun 27, 2011
Jack Doughty wrote:
What is "RPG"? I can only think of "rocket-propelled grenade", and if that's what you mean, I don't get it!
In one sense, it's a grenade, since you throw (?) or operate it to the answerer(s) whenever you see an off-track answer suggested at KudoZ.
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Ildiko Santana United States Local time: 07:33 Member (2002) English to Hungarian + ...
Not for points, not for speed
Jun 27, 2011
writeaway wrote:
Why not just make a question a question without the used and abused pro/non-pro categories and even drop the points system altogether, especially if the main goal of Kudos it to help others?
I fully agree with writeaway.
One minor detail still remains though:
....the person had his/her answer chosen as most helpful by Asker.
This will only work in the ideal world where all Askers will select the answers they find the most *helpful*. Unfortunately, this is not the case today. More often than not Askers select the *fastest* answer (which usually lacks any real explanation or reference), as if this was some sort of a race.
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Yasutomo Kanazawa Japan Local time: 23:33 Member (2005) English to Japanese + ...
@Ildiko
Jun 27, 2011
Ildiko Weinberger wrote:
One minor detail still remains though:
....the person had his/her answer chosen as most helpful by Asker.
This will only work in the ideal world where all Askers will select the answers they find the most *helpful*. Unfortunately, this is not the case today. More often than not Askers select the *fastest* answer (which usually lacks any real explanation or reference), as if this was some sort of a race.
I know you left a similar message on another forum what you wrote above, and I partially agree to what you wrote that the fastest answer seems to be selected, but not in my language pair, at least. I don't know why, but maybe the askers in my language pairs have more patience? I know what you mean, and I've seen answers posted 1 minute after the question was first asked, with an answer in the answer box withoutan explanation except a smiley, and then 5 or 10 minutes later, a link(s) or explanation to the provided answer is added. Yes, some people take this as a race, and the fastest answer is not always necessarily the correct answer.
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Michael Korovkin Italy Local time: 16:33 Russian to English + ...
Quot homines tot sententiae, of course, but there is a qualifier
Apr 2
Now I see the rationale behind those "not-for-points". I totally disagree with it but respect it as a matter of course. I myself think that those points but supply our participation with a ludic element, which is extremely important – especially to those who, like me, participate in the site mostly for fun... and practice (I live in an xeno-phone environment). Be it as it may, there is still an interesting qualifier: In my experience, while most participants post exclusively "for-points" questions, I have yet to see a colleague who posts exclusively "not-for points" ones. So, what is a criterion, then, for now being generous and now mean? Why the purist flamens on the altar of disinterestedness are so inconsistent?
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