KudoZ updated in various ways

Kirill Semenov wrote:

If you (me, Gad, or anyone) ask a question, take your time and your responsibility to thank your fellow colleagues who were of help: select the most helpful answer and state how much you appreciate the inputs of all other contributors which in most cases are also of a great help. That's simple

Elvira Stoianov wrote:
I didn't say I don't want to grade questions, but I can judge them better when I have gone through the entire text and have a better overview of the entire context. I don't see any harm in thanking one week later and being able to select the appropriate answer in view of your entire situation, rather than making a hasty decision and choose one answer, just because the system wants you to (I sometimes graded a question because the system made me, and afterwards I used a different answer, when I had time to analyze all the answers given). In this case, do you think it was fair?

Elvira Stoianov wrote:



I didn't say I don't want to grade questions, but I can judge them better when I have gone through the entire text and have a better overview of the entire context. I don't see any harm in thanking one week later and being able to select the appropriate answer in view of your entire situation, rather than making a hasty decision and choose one answer, just because the system wants you to (I sometimes graded a question because the system made me, and afterwards I used a different answer, when I had time to analyze all the answers given). In this case, do you think it was fair?

Kirill Semenov wrote:



Well, so you mean you ask a kudoZ question as soon as you stumble on a difficult point in your large text? Why not do this after you finish your draft translation and have read the entire text? Well may be that you will not need to ask a question at all (if the further context provides some hints on a questionable expression or term). And since final proofreading of the translation of a large text usually takes several days, you still have plenty of time to get answers and select the most helpful one with certainty (because you've read the entire text already).

[Edited at 2005-04-26 08:55]

gad wrote:
If in a certain circumstance it may require more time, then I don't see the harm in that. I don't see what't the big hurry to grade, especially if you want to stress QUALITY, which I assume, you do. For a translation of 60,000+ words, you really think that more time would not be in order? I have to disagree.

gad wrote:

I was wondering if I could have more time to grade certain questions without getting these reminders. I heard one ProZ.com moderator say that they try to track down and "discipline" people who refuse to grade or close questions, but sometimes, particularly lately, when I am still working on a massive translation project, I haven't quite made the decision yet of which answer to choose or whether any of the answers even fit. Of course, because of that moderator's previous comments on the topic of grading/closing questions, I do it but just wish in certain cases I could have just a little more time before getting a reminder. I understand the time limit but perhaps it could be extended a bit, at least in certain cases? If this has already been discussed elsewhere on these forums then please just let me know, thanks.