Browniz Donation

Xiangdong Zhuo wrote:

Denyce 真是一位敢说敢做的巨人，自从担任 KudoZ 版主以来着实做出了不小的贡献。您的行动更有说服力，让大家都为 KudoZ 的规范化运作出一份微薄之力吧，众人拾柴火焰高，相信 glossing 之火会越燃越旺。

Browniz Donation 固然是义举，但常言道“无功不受禄”，还是应该考虑积极为这个社群多做些贡献吧，否则受之有愧。

TongliUSA wrote:

I'd like to donate my Browniz, if I can help more people to be members here.

Denyce Seow wrote:

I just thought of an idea, but I'm not sure if it works or if it is against Proz's rules. Here is my idea: the donor sends the Browniz to me or Stefanie, and we send the Browniz to the recipient. What do you think? Works? People do not have to worry about us taking the Browniz for ourselves because the number of Browniz we have is shown in our user info box (top left corner of Proz homepage).

Actually, there is nothing embarrassing or degrading about getting free Browniz. The donors are sharing their Browniz out of willingness. Besides, Browniz are like "monopoly money", we don't need so many of them. If people really feel uncomfortable with donating or receiving Browniz, they can of course go through me or Stefanie. However, if they could do the transfer between themselves, that would be better.

Denyce

wherestip wrote:

You should be called the Scout Leaders then since you're doling out Brownie points.

wherestip wrote:

BTW, I was always curious... When people award KudoZ points to the most helpful suggestion, do those points come out of Browniz points? It must come out of somewhere, otherwise why would anyone ever pose a "not for points" KudoZ question.

Denyce Seow wrote:



That reminds me of those little Brownie girl scouts in my primary school... I was not one myself, but I always found it funny to see them in that brown uniform covered with small, shiny badges.

I'm too old to be a scout. "Auntie" suits me better.

Denyce

By the way, do you know that the KudoZ points you get from NON-PRO do not help in improving your ranking? These NON-PRO questions do not even go into the KOG.

wherestip wrote:

I was wondering about that actually. I think they should have a button for "not-for-grading" or something like that when making an answer entry. Sometimes I feel like making a comment or participating in the discussion on some KudoZ question, but for various reasons don't really want to make an additional answer entry. There's no place to do it except for the "dialog box" at the top. It would be nice if there was an option for stating one's opinion without being so "conspicous", if you know what I mean. The only alternative for this is the agreement space, which is way too small to really say anything and hopefully get one's point across.

wherestip wrote:
As for the PRO vs. NON-PRO differentiation, I think sometimes the criteria could be a little subjective. IMO it might not be such a good idea to discourage seemingly easy questions, because sometimes what seems to be easy is really not so. Just a while ago, Yueyin used an example of the translation of 留级 (repeat a grade) to show that. I think another good example is a recent KudoZ question posed by Hamo on the difference of 世界上 and 世界中. The answer is really not that obvious when you sit down and think about it. To the native speaker, a lot of word usage and speech patterns come naturally, and are taken for granted. That goes both ways for the native English speaker and the native Chinese speaker. I for one could appreciate that.