[Feature request] Ability for the course maker or the player to retire old mem-items when they are reintroduced with more information

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There is a really good Memrise on Albanian vocab, complete with audio for nearly all entries, https://www.memrise.com/course/1054595/discovering-albanian/ based on the vocabulary of the book ‘Discovering Albanian 1’ (I own a copy) published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2011.

The only thing that really annoys me with this memrise course is that the book (and thus the faithfully made memrise) first introduces the basic verbs with only the 1st person singular present indicative (Albanian has no infinitives so all dictionaries list the verbs by 1st pers. sing. indicative), but later on it reintroduces some of the same verbs with the following forms given:

  1. 1st. person singular present indicative
  2. Simple past (given as a suffix modifying the present indicative) and
  3. Past participle (as a suffix)

This causes annoyance into the game play as often I am faced with two technically correct answer options that and it is pretty much a guessing game which one I should answer when in fact they both are “correct”

For this reason I am suggesting an ability to “retire” the simpler mem-items, that list only the present indicative, when the more advanced mem-item is introduced to avoid this annoyance of needing to randomly guess which answer the memrise wants this time.

It really bummers up the speed review experience when you may lose hearts just because you guessed the wrong answer out of two possible correct ones.

I think that introducing the option for memrise course makers, or the players, or both, really up to the implementation, to “retire” an mem-item (so it stops being repeated) when it is being obsoleted by reintroducing the word (with more forms given) again would be super-easy to implement and has no apparent down-sides to it as far as I can see.

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Good point for this specific language, but it perhaps doesn’t apply for others. You can of course, set the ‘easier’ forms of present indicative to ‘ignore’ (if you don’t know how, ask). Though the ignored questions&answers might still show up as an alternative in multiple choice.

The other issue, that exactly the same word can have two correct answers, can be addressed by either (only the creator can do this):

  1. Adding an alternative
  2. Adding a ‘(1)’ or ‘(2)’ to the question
  3. Adding ‘(past)’ or ‘(present)’ to the question

I never like to add extra info to the target language, because in all typing questions, you need to type that as well.

For example
Target language - native language
also - too (in addition to)
excessive - too (more than good)

If you are not the creator, contact the creator.
If this works for you, you don’t need to wait for the feature request to be implemented (which I guess won’t be soon, if ever).