Course creators and contributors can delete and even EDIT MEMS! Thank you very much, memrise!

First of all, I want to give a huge THANK-YOU to the memrise team for re-introducing - and improving - an old feature that I had sorely missed for quite some time.

In my never-ending quest to make the four-part course, 8,000+ Most Common Swedish Words, the best ever Swedish vocab course on memrise, I used to go through the mems on the courses and remove misleading ones. One typical example:

The Swedish word “en kull” had been initially translated as “a litter”, which, understandably, led some people doing the course to believe that this word referred to trash and so on. However, the word “litter” in this case was referring to a litter of animals, not to trash. Accordingly, there were lots of mems featuring trash cans and litter bins - all completely irrelevant to the word in question and totally misleading…

So, once my own Swedish was proficient enough that I had found out that this was wrong, I was able - once upon a time - to remove the misleading mems.

Back then, I also removed the many near-identical duplicate mems that came about when memrise offered a number of (also sometimes misleading) pictures for mems. And, last but not least, I occasionally removed lewd and sexist mems (schoolkids use the site, too).

And then, one day, memrise removed the “report” button, removed the forums that could be accessed directly from the word you were learning and removed the function that enabled course creators and contributors to delete mems.

I was sad. Very sad.

But now I am happy again :smiley: because I just saw this:

Do you see those options up in the right-hand corner???

We can now do the following:

a) flag a mem (that was always available, actually);
b) edit a mem
c) x a mem - uh, don’t know what this one means :slight_smile: ;
d) throw a useless or repetitive or misleading mem in the trash!!!

But the one I am really pleased about is that we can now edit other people’s mems. I have often seen pretty good mems which were marred by the lack of Swedish letters or just bad spelling or grammar (which is no big deal and such, but if I can correct it, why not?). And now we can make those OK mems into GREAT mems.

I am ridiculously pleased about this :smiley:

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Seems I might have spoken too soon :frowning:

I tried to edit someone else’s mem (which had a minor spelling mistake, but, hey, I just wanted to see if I could do it!) and ^^that up there is what happened.

I can’t edit any mem since October 2016, even if I made typo. It may be this way because the mem is made in-app. In the beginning of September 2016 this was not a problem

I don’t see how this is an improvement. People make mems that specifically work for them to learn the material. If people can just erase them because it doesn’t personally work for the creator then it simply limits the usefulness of the course.

Also, if they haven’t fixed the mem blocking issue many of us will be stuck with distracting pictures that makes the course counterproductive.

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Just a thought but couldn’t allowing users to set there mems to private solve many of these issues?

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This function seems to have disappeared again.