Is the melon somewhere in there?
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Maybe if you send them this specific instance in email, they’ll do something about it.
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Oh, looks like it was introduced in December
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Sent it their way 
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They should indeed, but then they would probably have to hire a lot of interns who go through every item and think about any possible typo anyone could make and add them to the blacklist. And even then they would probably miss a lot of them. It’s not impossible, but certainly not anywhere near easy.
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Maybe they could make a forum thread for blacklist suggestions, or something like that? I figure more people would post in something like that compared to having to send an email
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That would be a nightmare for them to maintain. Somebody has to constantly follow that thread and filter the blacklist suggestions by usefulness, and then maintain them in the database. Then other people start new threads suggesting other blacklists and then they have to monitor that thread too. Then other people ask that certain blacklists be removed because of reasons. And then there is a debate about whether a blacklist item should be removed or not. Repeat ad nauseam.
Again, not impossible, but they don’t have that many employees to do this.
There is a good reason why the blacklist is secret.
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Platron pretty much nailed it. We use the blacklist for specific things, like numeral answers, words that are very close but have opposite meanings, etc. Trying to expand it to just generally include typos that are other words would be good for when you’re doing reviews, but it would be really tough to stay on top of.
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I was thinking of something more like just making a single thread and just directing everyone there. Then, for each post there, I just thought of it is as checking “does this word have a different meaning than the actual answer” and adding it if it does.
That said, I did figure it probably wouldn’t be that simple. I don’t personally have any experience working on anything larger-scale*, so it’s not that surprising if any suggestions I make are bad. Thanks for informing me!
*large-scale as in management needed, not regarding budget or physical size
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It probably has less to do with experience managing large scale projects than knowing the nature of people on the internet. Quite impossible to predict once you open the floodgates.
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Establish desired behavior, build for it, everyone does everything except that…
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I believe so? @oldbonsai has shown me the formula the system uses to judge how many accepted deviations are allowed, but I’m afraid I don’t remember the specifics.
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Yeah, there are other cases where there are complete opposites that I’ve seen get through…
I thought I read somewhere that some of those at least have been blacklisted…
Such as in this post…
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Any plans for user blacklists just like user synonyms? Here’s an example of where I think they would be useful:
思い遣り
Primary meaning: Consideration
Synonyms: Sympathy (+ thoughtfulness and compassion, added by me)
考慮
Primary meaning: Consideration
Synonyms: N/A (+ taking into account, added my me)
配慮
Primary meaning: Consideration
Synonyms: Care (+ concern and attention, added by me)
The given meanings for these words are all “consideration”, but they all mean different things. If I could, I would blacklist “consideration” for all three of these words, forcing me to remember another meaning that emphasizes their different uses.
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I would love this :o
Yep, it’s the Levenshtein Distance algorithm.
I use Jaro-Winkler Distance in my Self-Study Quiz script.
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I forgot to screenshot it, but I had 近視 and answered with farsightedness, and it gave me credit even though the answer is nearsightedness. Thought that was funny.
By keeping the blacklist a “secret” WK has kept their workload low, but they have also prevented the blacklist to be expanded beyond its current usefulness.
One compromise would be to only let people to discuss the blacklist in a thread in the subforum for level 60 members.
Or perhaps the subforum for the “reality” group (levels 51 until 60).
That way the number of people contributing will be kept low.
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