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Chung
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 Message 497 of 902
17 December 2012 at 4:55pm | IP Logged 
Takato wrote:
Serpent wrote:
Limiting to 15 members? ugh:S [...] 15 is unnecessarily little even for the beginning.

Yeah, I support Serpent's idea. The more the merrier. :)

@Brun Ugle Here's my TAC 2013 log.

Brun Ugle wrote:
Update

Anya:
Added to Romance #2

Anya is on five teams. Is it sensible to be on five teams? Will you make no limit on it?


I'm on four, but it doesn't seem onerous if you're already studying the relevant languages. As long as one studies the languages in question regularly, and tracks the progress, I don't see anything unusual.
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Kerrie
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 Message 498 of 902
17 December 2012 at 4:59pm | IP Logged 
mrwarper wrote:
But the level of activity can't be predicted.


I respectfully disagree.

Activity level can be accurately predicted (in some cases), by a number of factors. How many newbies are there? How long have each of the members been studying languages in general, and their target language in particular? How active have the members been in teams before? Do they have any prior TAC experience?

I predict that the Russian team will be busy. By March. Romance team 1 will fall apart. No one is going to call me a psychic when that happens.

Romance team 1, please PLEASE please prove me wrong! :)


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geoffw
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 Message 499 of 902
17 December 2012 at 5:04pm | IP Logged 
(Cross-posted to main signup thread and both Romance Team threads)

Checking the front page lists for the two Romance team threads, it looks like they have 18 (counting Kerrie) and 13
(not counting Cristina) members, respectively, and I'm not yet listed on either. If no one objects, can I be officially
listed on team two? (French and Italian)

EDIT: apparently trying to post two things in quick succession triggers a spam filter, so I'll cross-post in a bit.

Edited by geoffw on 17 December 2012 at 5:05pm
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mrwarper
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 Message 500 of 902
17 December 2012 at 5:31pm | IP Logged 
Kerrie wrote:
mrwarper wrote:
But the level of activity can't be predicted.


I respectfully disagree.

Activity level can be accurately predicted (in some cases), by a number of factors

I disrespectfully agree :)

Quote:
How many newbies are there? How long have each of the members been studying languages in general, and their target language in particular? How active have the members been in teams before? Do they have any prior TAC experience?


Of course there are factors that allow for some accuracy on predictions. But when you have to predict what you haven't seen on the basis of what you have seen already*, --and there's not really any other way to try and make predictions of any kind-- you're basically ruling out the chance of any changes in order to be accurate. We know that's not how the world works, and that's why so many predictions fail when change *can* happen.

So, I honestly hope for your good predictions to become true, and for the bad ones to be wrong. After all, isn't that exactly what we all do about predictions? Hey, you were right -- anyone could have totally predicted what my hopes would be ;)

*Basically extrapolating what known members will do from what they did in the past, what newbies will do from what others did when they were newbies.
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Kerrie
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 Message 501 of 902
17 December 2012 at 5:35pm | IP Logged 
mrwarper wrote:
So, I honestly hope for your good predictions to become true, and for the bad ones to be wrong.


Me too. =)

I think, for the most part, we will have very solid teams for 2013. We have a solid core group on most of the teams.
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Kerrie
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 Message 502 of 902
17 December 2012 at 5:35pm | IP Logged 
ugh, site is so slow it timed out on me. then I double posted. sorry!

Edited by Kerrie on 17 December 2012 at 5:37pm
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Brun Ugle
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 Message 503 of 902
17 December 2012 at 5:40pm | IP Logged 
Takato wrote:
@Solfrid Cristin My private message has been waiting for you since days. Just to remind you; I don't know whether your not reading it was intentional or not.

Solfrid Cristin wrote:
Frankly, [...] respect [...] Brun Ugle

Solfrid Cristin wrote:
but we cannot have 40 or 50 members of the same team.

Serpent wrote:
15 is unnecessarily little even for the beginning.

No one said 40 or 50 members. Of course the extreme is not merry.
Brun Ugle wrote:
Too late everybody. [...]dictator

Brun Ugle wrote:
sorry about my last post. I hate being a monster, but something had to be done :(


I don't really understand what you mean by "respect?" My tone of voice might be a bit too blunt/honest but I respect everyone. Up there it seemed to me Brun Ugle is open to suggestions. But if you say she has absolute power then I don't even know why you said what you said since then your writing supposedly had no value.

@Brun Ugle: Please tell us if you are open to suggestions or want to decide everything alone. Whether democratic choice or smoothness of organization is more important to you.



I am always open to suggestions. It was due to several people asking to do this that I have made these rules. Most people seem to be in agreement with me, but I am aware I cannot please everyone.
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mrwarper
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 Message 504 of 902
17 December 2012 at 5:46pm | IP Logged 
Kerrie wrote:
ugh, site is so slow it timed out on me. then I double posted. sorry!

You weren't double voted, so never mind :)


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