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Arabic & More
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Feb 4, 2011

I have asked a few KudoZ questions which received little or no response. I am thus wondering if there is any way to bump these questions back up to the top of the list so that they receive another round of attention.
 
JaneTranslates
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Local time: 16:05
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I don't think so. Feb 4, 2011

I don't think there is, Amel, but you can ask them again. Before you do, see if you can figure out why there was so little response. Did you ask for just one, clearly stated, term per question? Did you provide sufficient context and explanation?

I'm not saying that there was anything wrong with your questions; I haven't seen them. But when I skip over a question, it's usually because:
a) I have no idea how to answer it, or
b) There is insufficient context.

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I don't think there is, Amel, but you can ask them again. Before you do, see if you can figure out why there was so little response. Did you ask for just one, clearly stated, term per question? Did you provide sufficient context and explanation?

I'm not saying that there was anything wrong with your questions; I haven't seen them. But when I skip over a question, it's usually because:
a) I have no idea how to answer it, or
b) There is insufficient context.

I hope this helps.

Jane ▲ Collapse
 
Armorel Young
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German to English
Less common language pairs? Feb 4, 2011

Is this partly a consequence of lower site traffic in some language pairs? (not that that helps find a solution, but in my pair it is virtually unknown for questions to go unanswered)
 
Steve Booth
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one question Feb 4, 2011

Amel

i can only see one question of yours that hasn't been answered my guess is the reason for non answering is because there was not much context to go off.

When entering questions on Kudoz the more context you can give helps, it would also help to actually give the sentence the word crops up in. If it crops up more than once give a couple of examples.

You still occasionaly get unanswered questions if it isn't answered reasonably quickly it probably gets... See more
Amel

i can only see one question of yours that hasn't been answered my guess is the reason for non answering is because there was not much context to go off.

When entering questions on Kudoz the more context you can give helps, it would also help to actually give the sentence the word crops up in. If it crops up more than once give a couple of examples.

You still occasionaly get unanswered questions if it isn't answered reasonably quickly it probably gets buried under all the other questions and every now and then you are bound to get one which stumps everybody


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