| User | Thread poster: Helen Shiner Help with searching reference posts |
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Helen Shiner 
United Kingdom
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On a number of occasions recently, I have wanted to check reference posts I have made to Kudoz questions without being able to remember to which question they would have belonged. Whilst we all have access to a list of the Kudoz questions to which we have submitted answers, I would find a similar listing of the reference posts I have made very useful. If that listing could be searchable by keyword, so much the better.
Or is there a way of doing this already that has passed me by?
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Russell Jones
United Kingdom
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Hi Helen
I do understand your point; it could certainly be helpful.
I think you might get a better response (particularly if you get support here, which you could refer to), if you did one of the following:
Submit a support request
Post in the ProZ.com Suggestions forum
Use the "Ideas" tab (top right).
In the meantime, a not too busy Moderator might be willing to search for you, as we have access to Users's reference comments.
Good luck.
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Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
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TOPIC STARTER | | Thanks Russell | Sep 10, 2011 |
I thought I would wait to see if a more obvious method presented itself, but I will certainly suggest it to the powers that be, if not.
Since I can't remember sufficient details of what and why I posted the reference material, I would need to see a list of my reference posts to be prompted. It is not urgent or serious enough to impose on a moderator's time in this way, but it is interesting that they can see the information.
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Phil Hand
China
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Member (2011)
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| | Doesn't Google do this for you now? | Sep 10, 2011 |
search for your name, a keyword from the topic, and restrict the search to site:proz.com/kudoz
Doesn't what you want just pop up?
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Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
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You need the keyword, though, don't you? Just as it is useful to have a list of Kudoz answers submitted, I would find a list of reference posts useful. You may have better recall of what you did in 2008!!
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Phil Hand
China
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if you know approximately what you're looking for, coming up with a keyword that is very very likely to have appeared somewhere on that page shouldn't be too hard. I mean, you're saying you'd recognise it if you saw it in a list; so you must be able to come up with some closely related word that could narrow the search sufficiently for you.
I dunno, I just always hated the old highly ordered, highly structured set up where you could find anything if and only if you knew its position beforehand. I love the Google alternative, whereby things can be linked lexically. I no longer desire a structureed world, just a searchable one. It's Googlisation of the brain, jump aboard!
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Helen Shiner
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Thanks, Phil, I've been using Google for years and do know how it works. I also know that it did not help on these occasions.
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Katalin Horvath McClure
United States
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| | Good idea - adding a tab to one's KudoZ activity page | Sep 11, 2011 |
I think Helen brings up a good idea. When we look at our KudoZ activity page, the tabs show: Point totals, Stats, Asked, Open Questions, Answered.
I think it would be a good idea to add one more tab, for "References posted" or something like that, with a similar format as the Asked and Answered pages, showing all the reference comments posted by the person, in reverse chronological order.
Katalin
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Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
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TOPIC STARTER | | Thanks, Katalin | Sep 11, 2011 |
Yes, I think that would be a good way of handling it.
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Daniel Grau
Argentina
Member (2008)
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Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
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Thank you.
In the meantime, Russell has kindly sent me a list of all my reference posts.
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Lucia Leszinsky
Argentina
Member (2008)
SITE STAFF | | Added to list of suggestions | Sep 12, 2011 |
Hello all,
Thanks for the suggestion, Helen. It has been added to the list of ideas for KudoZ improvements to be evaluated for possible future implementation.
Regards,
Lucia
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Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
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Thank you very much, Lucia. Apart from its usefulness, it would be another indication of a translator's contribution to the Proz.com community. In some ways, even more than Kudoz answers, given the fact that points are not awarded for making reference posts.
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