User Comments - zhenlijiang
zhenlijiang
Posted on: Blog Posts, API's, Announcements and Gloria!
March 30, 2010 at 2:49 AMRJ, I think CPod have assured us before that the purpose of all the changes to the site is not to discourage us from posting and I believe that. But I agree that the threading has had a fragmenting effect (that I consider detrimental to the Community).
And I know CPod hear us on the main threading-related grumbles and are working on solutions.
Posted on: Blog Posts, API's, Announcements and Gloria!
March 30, 2010 at 2:43 AMBaba but you'd only know a thread is sleeping, inactive, if you already knew that to begin with, if that's making sense. Otherwise--say you hadn't logged on for a couple of days--you don't know, because what the "spamming" does is equalize the appearance, on the Conversations page, of the threads it goes on in. As you know, many old lessons get picked up by poddies all the time with questions they have now, and those are old but active threads.
But yeah it is grand, that we don't agree on something and can talk about it!
Posted on: Blog Posts, API's, Announcements and Gloria!
March 30, 2010 at 1:50 AM(Baba just so you know I added a paragraph to my last comment.)
Posted on: Blog Posts, API's, Announcements and Gloria!
March 30, 2010 at 1:31 AMBaba--
I wonder if when they first sign up for the trial there could be an obvious message on the sign up page directing them to a single spot on the site that could be set up for language exchange.
你可真聪明！ Or if not to a spot on the site for language exchange, the site policy, in both English AND Chinese.
I personally do find those posts annoying. Or perhaps I should say that threaded comments + those posts (made across so many threads, picking up "sleeping" threads, lessons that were not being discussed by anyone then) are a deadly combo. It discourages me from making the effort to look any further at the boards, because with those posts + threaded comments it becomes not impossible but just too much work, to find out what the newest comment anywhere was.
Posted on: Warcraft in China
March 26, 2010 at 4:27 PMHi, I don't get why you erased your original, totally uncontroversial response to Baba and then went on to change usernames at least twice. Also the profile says you're female. I wonder, maybe you (the original poster) set up this account and then decided to give it to a friend?
Could you please oblige and de-baffle me and anyone else who happened to be looking when you posted the original comment? But if not here, then at least perhaps in a PM to Baba? I say all this because I'm assuming good faith here.
Posted on: Getting to Know CPod Teacher Helen (and exciting content news)!
March 15, 2010 at 10:46 AMChangye is erudite of course, and a language o-taku. If you thought he'd know much about any popular Japanese artist active only for the last 10 years or so you're misinformed haha. I've always heard that Spanish is much easier for us Japanese to pronounce, if you ignore the rolling Rs, than languages like American (an English teacher friend maintains that Japanese learning to speak English should not try to emulate American but British--Ok and I know both have many variations--American is much more difficult for us she says, and I can see her point) and French.
Posted on: 中年危机
March 15, 2010 at 1:50 AM啊，不好意思 lazypupil（我也是，呵呵）我错了。Connie 谢谢你的修改。
Posted on: 中年危机
March 14, 2010 at 11:47 PM我觉得他说的是‘失败呢，成功之母嘛。所以说……’。
Posted on: Going to the Doctor
March 13, 2010 at 8:21 PMConnie, thank you for answering (go_manly's question). Sorry I didn't catch this earlier.
Posted on: Blog Posts, API's, Announcements and Gloria!
March 30, 2010 at 6:34 AMI'm sorry to keep flogging this but Baba, opening a thread and looking up and down--the point of our complaints w/threading being, you have to look up and down to identify the second latest comment (the very latest comment, in this case the spam, is the only easy one to find)--to find that the last comment before the spamming was ages ago (= confirming that a thread was indeed inactive) is just too much futile labor for me. In fact, simply opening the thread to confirm that it was indeed inactive is too much.
Then when admin has deleted all the spam, we're left with the debris--all those threads, inactive mixed in among the active--up at the top of the Conversations and no indicator of what was the latest. You're less likely to find this a problem if you're someone who checks in here on a daily basis, of course. But many users don't.