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| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4613 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes  Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 689 of 713 08 October 2012 at 1:27am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Hmm. It depends what you mean by 'count', because the ranking algorithm isn't straightforward. In the case where two people are studying the same number of challenges, the extra books/films over the limit will be used to determine their relative order. I agree though that in the case where someone reads 1000 books in one language it shouldn't put them over people who have studied 100 books, 100 films and 100 conversations. I don't have a link for it, but there's a post - perhaps 20 or so pages back - that explains exactly how things are currently ordered.
This wasn't on the to-do list, because in the list of notes I've distilled from comments in this thread I've got written that variations for half-challenges had been discussed and decided against. But I'm also fairly sure this was back somewhere at the beginning of this thread, so if it's something that people are now interested in and are going to find useful, there's no technical reason I can't add variations to half- challenges. Is there anyone else with thoughts about this? Is there enough interest that it's worth adding these? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6606 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 690 of 713 08 October 2012 at 3:23am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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If I'm not mistaken, Cristina herself is doing a half duper challenge in German :)
Yes it was on the to-do list, as "Add Conversation/Writing options to the Half Challenge" :))) i remember that post but there was nothing about the books/movies above the limit... nobody was there yet:) the way you described it, i was pretty sure the extra books wouldn't be displayed at all. i wonder if he even realizes he's done with the challenge :D 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| RMM Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5236 days ago 91 posts - 215 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Swedish, Japanese | Message 691 of 713 08 October 2012 at 4:29am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
This exchange above was the last I remember hearing about the half super duper challenges. They are still listed as options that Cristina included in the “Super challenge total info reference” thread (the sticky in the Logs section), so I would assume nothing has changed on that front? At any rate, thanks for the updates, Surrealix! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4613 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 692 of 713 08 October 2012 at 4:30am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Half challenges have been an option for quite a while - I'm doing two myself :).
I went back through the thread and found that post about the rankings - and you're right, there's nothing about the limits in it. However (I was sure I'd written something about it, somewhere) I kept digging and found that it did get discussed here. This thread is a nightmare to keep track of! I'm guessing there will be more fine-tuning of things as people start hitting their targets.
Oops, that's embarrassing - I suspect I just glanced at it, saw "half challenges", and crossed it off along with the other updates. I've added those extra options for the half challenge - under their own group called the Major Challenge (#major). This is the Half Challenge equivalent of the 'Super Duper Challenge'. You can now sign up with #major #writing and #major #conversation, or just #major to do 50 of everything.
You're right, we did talk about this recently. I'm a bit confused about the combinations above though - those two lines seem to be 8 separate sub-challenges (a half super + conversation, a half super only books + conversation, a half super only films + conversation, writing, etc ...). For the moment, I've made it so that a half super challenge (the new #major challenge) with writing or conversation will be 50 'units' of everything (50 books, 50 films, 50 conversations, 50 pieces of writing). Edited by surrealix on 09 October 2012 at 1:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5404 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 693 of 713 08 October 2012 at 4:44am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Oh thank you! You are in my favorite people book now. :D 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| RMM Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5236 days ago 91 posts - 215 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Swedish, Japanese | Message 694 of 713 08 October 2012 at 6:05am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I haven't tried it out yet and correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like right now you can only choose to do writing or conversations with the half challenge. I was originally only interested in writing, but I'm starting to think that I really need to begin conversing a lot more too and the challenge would be a good impetus. Would it be too much trouble to make a half challenge with both writing and conversations together an option, as it is with the regular Super Duper and Advanced Mega Challenges?
Once again thanks so much for all you've done for us! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6606 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 695 of 713 08 October 2012 at 1:43pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Many thanks for the updates from me too!!!
I was actually referring to a half challenge with writing or convo as a half duper challenge:) as opposed to half super:))) And it seems like my request was implemented? <3 With the new edit function, you could just bring a book to 100 pages instead of checking: hmm so I've already listed 34, 27, 12 and 19 pages, now I've read the book so how many pages should I add? Now you can just update as you go: 37, 54, 76, 100 pages:) (or wait, is it possible to do more than one edit? which tweet should be edited, the original one?) I recommend everyone who actually plans edits to add their tweets to favourites :)) And maybe extra sub-challenges could be added if requested? I see that Kerrie tried to register with Croatian movies+writing, while I could do this with Danish... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4613 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 696 of 713 09 October 2012 at 1:09am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Of Course! I completely forgot to add this option. Variations on a half challenge now have their own group called the Major Challenge (#major) (other name suggestions also welcome). This is to the Half Challenge what the Super Duper Challenge is to the Super Challenge : The major challenge is 50 books, films, conversations and pieces of writing. Signing up to a #major challenge you can also use the #writing and #conversation tags to specify only one of them. Edited by surrealix on 09 October 2012 at 1:10am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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