Or a way to give a person "credit" of some sort, when say I've found a term I was looking for in someone's glossary. I would like to be able to acknowledge that to the person who took the time to enter the terms, but there is no function equivalent to this.
I'm not sure how such a funtion would work, but I was wondering if first, there is a counter regarding how many times a certain term is viewed - obviously that term is not actually going to be used every time, but OTOH, if I've ... See more Or a way to give a person "credit" of some sort, when say I've found a term I was looking for in someone's glossary. I would like to be able to acknowledge that to the person who took the time to enter the terms, but there is no function equivalent to this.
I'm not sure how such a funtion would work, but I was wondering if first, there is a counter regarding how many times a certain term is viewed - obviously that term is not actually going to be used every time, but OTOH, if I've entered a term that I myself had a hard time finding, and that's why I've entered it, I would like to know how many hits that term gets, because I want to know if it's helpful to others. At the same time and kind of related, I would like a way, like I said, to acknowledge to a member that I've found the translation I was looking for, thanks to that particular member's glossary entry. There have been cases where I could not find the term in paper dictionaries, Termium, GDT, Google searches, etc, etc, but I come here and search the glossaries and voila. But aside from emailing the person to send a personal thank you, there's no way for me to communicate this to the member.
Anyone else feel the way I do? Maybe we could have a field to enter comments, or an option to signal that you've used someone's glossary entry? The glossary entries are just as valuable as or sometimes more valuable than KudoZ answers, and of course the points are not comparable (right? or are they?).
Any other comments to this? The only other thing I have to say is that I would not want this to ever turn into a way to "slam" someone's entry, only to THANK or ACKNOWLEDGE IN A POSITIVE way, having used someone's glossary entry.
I hope you think this is a worthwhile suggestion to consider. Thanks.
[Edited out two typos.]
[Edited at 2005-07-17 22:53] ▲ Collapse
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