How do you all feel about just... blacklisting your leeches?

Japanese Language
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I’m sure everyone has words or kanji where they just formed the wrong neural pathway for, and constantly get wrong. Sometimes that is indicative of a bigger problem where you mix up 3-4 similars. Sometimes, its a leftover older word without enough other items in your queue using that kanji, so you never reinforce it properly and combined with your bad association, you cant seem to move past Master.

So it occurs to me, is it really worth fixing it? There’s a very real motivation cost associated with encountering this word over and over, a feeling of progress not made, of your learning not being “true”, and this over a random dictionary word. What’s the cost of just removing it permanently from your queue and accept that when (if?) you encounter it in the wild, you’ll have to look it up (or get the pronunciation wrong).

What do you think about this?

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I think it’s totally fine as long as one really immerse in Japanese content (videos, books, even conversations or living there, etc). If the leeching item doesn’t appear often enough on a day-to-day basis to finally get it into the brain “naturally”, it might not be worthy to try to force it into memory by an SRS-system.
But in the end, it’s a personal thing. Some want to finish WaniKani with 100% as completionists, others are fine with it to just get the most out of it and move on.