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 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 ;
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