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When I see someone linked two sentences, I tend to assume s/he considers both sentences to be good, so if one or both of the sentences aren't good enough, I'd rather you just left them unlinked. (To tell the truth, I don't really like it that you often link less unnatural Japanese sentences to English ones.)
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i agree with Tommy_san : linking is stamping your approval.
> It may seem like a "stamp of approval" on the quality of both sentences
and it really does especially when the linking was made by someone known to be proficient in both languages. I think it's better to leave less natural sentences alone and avoid linking them at all.
I slightly disagree, I don't consider linking as a "stamp of approval", but I would strongly discourage linking sentences when you know one (or both) of them is wrong, mainly for the fact that if you do that without leaving a comment on the wrong sentence, nobody will know it is wrong. I prefer leaving a comment and once it's corrected linking them.
My thoughts as well.
I thought CK was talking about cases where a sentence is neither incorrect nor obviously unnatural, but yet not really good either. In such cases, it is often not very easy to come up with a better alternative, at least for me.
This is actually related to the discussion about the rating system.
https://tatoeba.org/wall/show_m...#message_24217
I think it's not enough to have only three options of "OK", "not OK" and "unsure" (which in fact means for many users "I'm sure this sounds unnatural"), so I've been suggesting adding at least one more option between "OK" and the current "unsure".
I don't mean linking any sentences like a "stamp of approval".
I can also link sentences in my non-native languages to each other, if they have obviously the same meaning and there is no chance for subtile differences of meaning, that I couldn't recognize. If I see an obvious mistake, I'll comment it.
I think, if someone considers linking a sentence by the same way as tagging OK, they just don't completely understand how the project works.