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** Suggestion: Limiting the sentences displayed in "Random sentence" section to the languages defined in member's profile
It seems that a lot of new members are having problems understanding how the Tatoeba "Random sentence" feature works. If they see a sentence in a language they understand among the translations of the random sentence, they simply click "Translate" button without noticing that actually they translate the sentence on top of the list, not the one they maybe want to translate. The fact that all sentences but the one on top disappear after clicking the "Translate" button seems to never prevent many of new members from adding their translations. As a consequence we have a certain amount of wrongly linked sentences and most of such incorrect links won't be found and corrected soon enough.
I propose to limit the sentences that "Random sentence" feature displays to the languages defined in member's profile.
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I’m aware of this problem, but I guess it’s more because of the way we display sentences groups in general than because of the random sentence feature. What you’re suggesting is fine otherwise, but I don’t think it will improve the situation to a significant extend.
You're right, the problem affects not only the random sentence feature and my proposition is rather a workaround (and pretty harmless workaround if not useful, I believe) than a complete solution, but I think it would help to narrow the problem until it solved.