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Do admin requests have any effect? #184

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Wuzzy2 opened this issue Jul 10, 2015 · 10 comments
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Do admin requests have any effect? #184

Wuzzy2 opened this issue Jul 10, 2015 · 10 comments

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@Wuzzy2
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Wuzzy2 commented Jul 10, 2015

Is it just me, or are all admin requests (this one: http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/moderation.html) ignored?
I have sent a couple of admin requests in the far past (primarily for word deletions), no reactions so far.

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lagleki commented Jul 10, 2015

Words aren't deleted from JVS. They are downvoted.

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Wuzzy2 commented Jul 10, 2015

The page I've linked to has a drop-down and it includes the entry “valsi Deletion”. If entries are never deleted, then this drop-down list is grossly misleading.

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lagleki commented Jul 10, 2015

feel free to file issues. i think words can be deleted by request in a
separate issue.

2015-07-10 16:28 GMT+03:00 Wuzzy [email protected]:

The page I've linked to has a drop-down and it includes the entry “valsi
Deletion”. If entries are never deleted, then this drop-down list is
grossly misleading.


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Wuzzy2 commented Jul 16, 2015

Well, I think there is one kind of word which should be deleted: Those lujvo which aren't in the canonical form, i.e. “pinxe zei cidja” vs “pinxydja” vs “pixydja”. Only “pixydja” should remain.

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solpahi commented Jul 16, 2015

Wuzzy:

Well, I think there is one kind of word which should be deleted: Those
lujvo which aren't in the canonical form, i.e. “pinxe zei cidja” vs
“pinxydja” vs “pixydja”. Only “pixydja” should remain.

I strongly disagree. A lot of people for example prefer {tolcliva} over
{tolyli'a}, or {ci'omle} over {citmle} despite the worse score - a score
that does not take into count aesthetics and pronouncability.
Restricting word formation is exactly the wrong thing to do at this point.

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lagleki commented Jul 16, 2015

then probably should be done via BPFK decisions. However, there is no
unified mechanism for it now.

  1. How does one send such requests to BPFK?
  2. What should and what should not be sent to BPFK?
  3. Deadlines for such decisions, reporting back to those who made requests.

2015-07-16 11:20 GMT+03:00 selpahi [email protected]:

Wuzzy:

Well, I think there is one kind of word which should be deleted: Those
lujvo which aren't in the canonical form, i.e. “pinxe zei cidja” vs
“pinxydja” vs “pixydja”. Only “pixydja” should remain.

I strongly disagree. A lot of people for example prefer {tolcliva} over
{tolyli'a}, or {ci'omle} over {citmle} despite the worse score - a score
that does not take into count aesthetics and pronouncability.
Restricting word formation is exactly the wrong thing to do at this point.


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lagleki commented Jul 16, 2015

I think it's not about deleting but about tagging words as e.g.
"user_Wuzzy:deleted".
if an API to postres is available and tagging is added to the db model then
GUI with such tagging capabilities can be developed with export mechanisms
of printing dictionaries in which words with/without certain tags are
excluded/included.

2015-07-16 11:05 GMT+03:00 Wuzzy [email protected]:

Well, I think there is one kind of word which should be deleted: Those
lujvo which aren't in the canonical form, i.e. “pinxe zei cidja” vs
“pinxydja” vs “pixydja”. Only “pixydja” should remain.


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Wuzzy2 commented Jul 16, 2015

lagleki, you do not understand. People are free to choose any word form they like.
Because, according to CLL, all forms a lujvo are equivalent by definition. So if I define “tolyli'a”, I also automatically have defined “to'e zei cliva” and “tolycliva” as well.

Therefore, it does not make much sense to include all those word forms, don't you think? The other word forms are simply implied.

That the dictionary always should use the canonical form is simply to avoid redundancy.
It would be bad if we had “tolyli'a”, “to'e zei cliva” AND “tolycliva” floating around. It's simply a technical reason.

That also why there is “malgli” in the dictionary, although “malglico” is a much more common (and 100% equally valid) form of this lujvo.

In fact, this is stated every time you create a word:

If it is a lujvo, make sure you're using the lowest scoring form of the lujvo. You're not going to get anywhere by using a different form, as the database is periodically swept for noncanonical form lujvo, and they are modified to the appropriate canonical form. (Or removed, and all related data pointed towards the canonical version, if it already exists.)

I wonder if this database cleanup has ever been actually done before.

It would be even better if Jbovlaste could check the lujvo score right from the beginning.

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lagleki commented Jul 17, 2015

2015-07-16 11:45 GMT+03:00 Wuzzy [email protected]:

lagleki, you do not understand. People are free to choose any word form
they like.
Because, according to CLL, all forms a lujvo are equivalent by
definition
. So if I define “tolyli'a”, I also automatically have defined
“to'e zei cliva” and “tolycliva” as well.

Therefore, it does not make much sense to include all those word forms,
don't you think?

It makes perfect sense. People have been using {lobykai}, {lobypli} and
{fa'orma'o} for a long time.
So how one is supposed to understand them?
You already opened an issue #52

Until that issue is closed this issue isn't going to be solved and should
NOT even be solved.
After issue #52 is closed we may discuss deleting those words.

The other word forms are simply implied.

That the dictionary always should use the canonical form is simply to
avoid redundancy.
It would be bad if we had “tolyli'a”, “to'e zei cliva” AND “tolycliva”
floating around. It's simply a technical reason.

That also why there is “malgli” in the dictionary, although “malglico” is
a much more common (and 100% equally valid) form of this lujvo.


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Wuzzy2 commented Jul 17, 2015

Until that issue is closed this issue isn't going to be solved and should
NOT even be solved.
After issue #52 is closed we may discuss deleting those words.

Yes, I agree.

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