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>the explain your answer is something I'm really interested in to help me understand the sentences I'm constructing They used to have an army of native-speakin
by cool_dude85 4y ago
>the explain your answer is something I'm really interested in to help me understand the sentences I'm constructing
They used to have an army of native-speaking volunteers to do this for free in the comments. I guess this is why they turned those off.
- bayesian_horse 4y agoUsually that decision is driven by the cost of moderating/deleting abusive content quickly enough in order to not get banned from use in schools...
- cool_dude85 4y agoMaybe I'm wrong, but I would not be surprised if forum moderation was a volunteer activity. Even core functionality like developing the lessons, for less popular languages, was done by the Duo community and given very little support from paid staff.
- bayesian_horse 4y agoYes, but moderating and screening for abusive content can't reliably left to unpaid volunteers if it needs to be good enough not to scare off parents and educators. I remember that this was the death knell to a Lego online game: People were making genitals quicker and more inventively than anybody could keep up. In education technology, many seem to hope to get that from AI: the helpfulness of a forum of volunteers without the abuse. The rise of the "unsocial network".
- ArchOversight 4y agoThey still have the forum style "help me out", but there are some where the responses are really a huge miss where I could see this AI helping out more by giving better answers.