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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4689 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 425 of 766 26 June 2014 at 11:18am | IP Logged | |||||
Is it too obvious to suggest that you probably have too many add-ons running for your computer to handle? You mentioned an ad-blocker on the previous page. You also mentioned using the language challenge page while watching streams. Try switching off browser add-ons and go to the page without anything else running on your computer. Sorry if my advice is too obvious and you've already tried it. One more question: have you tried switching it off and on again? 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5016 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 426 of 766 27 June 2014 at 9:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm a bit annoyed about this book prejudice weighting thing on the SC Bot.
I've watched about 11 movies/audiobooks in French and read 2 books, 7 movies in Italian and 3 books, but only a silver star? That is like 30+ hours of work and I only get a silver star? Viva la revolution! Cinema goers unite! Stick it to the man! Burn the books (well... maybe not go that far... but still ... you see my point) I agree with weighting books vs films for the overall ranking system depending on which one is least used, but the badges are a reward for individual effort. I've put in a lot of effort and feel like I'm getting the short end of the stick. People who read fast wiz through 5 books in 180 minutes and get the gold for the equivalent of two films worth of time invested. There I said it... *phew* 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4384 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 427 of 766 28 June 2014 at 12:07am | IP Logged | |||||
The badges don't use any weighting system. I'm sorry you feel it's still unfair, but I suspect this is a miscommunication of how the badges work. For the round 'activity' badge, I add up all the study you've done in the last fortnight, and you get a badge if you've read the equivalent of at least one whole book, and watched at least one whole film. That is, it measures how balanced your study is, not just how much you've done. A silver badge is 2 books AND 2 films, and a gold badge is 5 books AND 5 films. For example, @VivianJ5 and @LangEmme near the top of the list both obviously favour books, but both have also watched *at least* 12 hours of movies in the last fortnight. I've been meaning to put in an explanation section along with the challenge rules, but things have been a little busy for me recently. It's on my list! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5016 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 428 of 766 28 June 2014 at 9:27am | IP Logged | |||||
AH! OK that makes sense! Thanks for the explanation, I feel better now. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6377 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 429 of 766 28 June 2014 at 12:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I still don't get it. I finally gained some consistency in Finnish, but it says 2 weeks and not three? I reported items on June 11, 20 and 27. One Wednesday and two Fridays. The badge didn't appear until yesterday.
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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3924 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 430 of 766 30 June 2014 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I went back to the first few pages of this conversation and suddenly realized that I may have been doing the SC
wrong since the beginning! I read in two different ways in Spanish: extensive (novels) and intensive (articles). I've been counting and tweeting the article pages that I've been reading every week. Is this ok? I think I just got so excited by the idea of levelling up in Spanish through massive exposure that I didn't even consider whether or not articles counted as pages read! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6377 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 431 of 766 30 June 2014 at 11:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Articles definitely count!
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4946 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 432 of 766 30 June 2014 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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What if the language has no articles?
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