If you ignore a word you already know, it will not pop up to study again. It will appear as multiple choice option again during tests, and that’s fine.
If you ignore a word you already know, but you do it to clean up misunderstandings such as “stand, stand up” vs “stand up, stand up to your feet”, or “rice field” vs “paddy field, rice field”, and these terms appear during reviews anyway, then that’s a problem.
The course I find borderline unusable due to sometimes flat-out identical definitions like “double” vs “double” is this one:
Would it be possible to completely remove the ignored items from the repetitions?
No that is not possible i’m afraid, if we start removing ignored words from the distractors as we call them, then you could end up with no distractors.
These are not “distractors”, though. If you have a Kanji with identical keywords to pick from, it turns into Russian Roulette with 2 shots left and 1 of them the bullet. 50% chance to fail due to no fault of your own, and then you are forced to ignore double the entries, to circumvent the problem entirely.
Besides, if the chosen option wouldn’t even be wrong, it would lead to a) frustration, and b) extra workload for no good reason, which would then damage the motivation.
Is that a better option, though?
PS: I decided to aggressively ignore any ambiguous items now, which will lead to me missing out on some nice vocabulary, and remove all available entries for certain kanji completely. That’s going to fix the problem for me, at great cost. I wish the choice whether to have “less distractors” would be a thing should lie with the user.
With mems having been disabled, there’s now almost no customisation anymore.
The problem with this course is that it’s based on a book, where identical keywords make sense, to avoid the “RTK-disease” with increasingly obscure keywords towards the end. The solution to this would probably be example sentences.
Wish there were ways to take a set and copy it, so I can make my own version of it, then I’d grab example sentences for it and put those in instead. That’d be possible with ANKI, but I hate that program.
Well, thanks anyway.
PS: A solution would be to have the site recognise when keywords are identical and mark you as correct, even if you pick “the wrong one” (which, in the real world, would still be correct).