From nobody@chain.digitalkingdom.org Thu Dec 21 12:29:57 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list bpfk-announce); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:29:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GxUY8-0005dx-2x for bpfk-announce-real@lojban.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:29:56 -0800 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GxUY3-0005dq-6R for bpfk-announce@lojban.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:29:55 -0800 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so2577462uge for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:29:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fO1tohRLaRoZEVvAkiGtlAFPYMSTJh1ndUixB+4UvC7fKv7+uiJ8ZIIxShfJCUa27nbYwPgl370T+PDSR3EI+pvtT3GnlteJBKLXpHWFLpiS89g1QhvKg+6KxcwJTvwl4ZAxDsadr77boZ15OWbS+BfbfIQASGW7sCwdbsSzaDA= Received: by 10.78.205.7 with SMTP id c7mr714198hug.1166732988532; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:29:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.144.4 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:29:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:29:47 -0500 From: "Matt Arnold" To: bpfk-announce@lojban.org Subject: [bpfk-announce] Re: BPFK In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <458771EE.9020108@lojban.org> <925d17560612210843r5ab7aa06x884e3c82a43fc6ae@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 X-Spam-Score-Int: -24 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 135 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: bpfk-announce-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: bpfk-announce-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: bpfk-announce@lojban.org X-list: bpfk-announce On 12/21/06, Adam D. Lopresto wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Matt Arnold wrote: > > > On 12/21/06, Adam D. Lopresto wrote: > > > > > In my opinion, BPFK members reviews should be artificially weighted in the > > scoring. > > I don't see that as necessary at all. It is, after all, just a game. Not in order to improve your "game" score, but so that quality translations can be given the jboselkei equivalent of Google Page Rank for concordance purposes. > The real missing link is that jboselkei, at least as it currently describes > itself, is about translating English to Lojban. So I can ask "translate > 'foo'", but I can't ask "Please use the word {fu} in a sentence", without > first thinking of an English sentence that I hope translates that way. > > There's nothing technically stopping it from being (ab)used that way, but if > that's a goal a lot of the support text should probably be altered. I or someone will have to come up with a metric by which to score that. Alternately, I'll imagine an entire new game. Two hours from now I will be on vacation through New Years and have almost no plans for how to spend the next eleven days, so I have time. -Eppcott