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Corpus maintainers could see the sentences of inactive / suspended users in a separate section #3347

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@Guybrush88

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I was browsing users out of curiosity, and I stumbled upon an inactive user (https://tatoeba.org/it/user/profile/User4473), and I saw that the sentences of this user can be adopted by active users.

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Corpus maintainers could see a separate page in their accounts where they can see such users and / or sentences so that they can more easily check sentences in their own language (by filtering them, maybe) and correct them if they see a mistake. This might work also for suspended users.

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    enhancementIssue that describes a problem that requires a change in the current functionalities of Tatoeba.
    on Sep 3, 2026
  2. jiru commented on Oct 5, 2026

    @jiru
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    Good idea. By the way, you don't need to be a corpus maintainer to adopt sentences owned by inactive users, any regular member can. So the page you describe does not need to be limited to corpus maintainers. Also, we could put that new functionality as part of the existing "adopt sentences" page.

  3. kilsense commented on Oct 5, 2026

    @kilsense

    By the way, you don't need to be a corpus maintainer

    This may be a strong restriction, but I don't think this feature should be available to new users before they reach Advanced Contributor status. If it were available to everyone, there would be a risk of inexperienced users mass-adopting sentences without sufficient regard for grammatical correctness or their own proficiency in the language.

    This seems particularly risky in the case of suspended users: if their sentences could easily be mass-adopted through such a page, sentences that require additional review could be overlooked simply because they are no longer marked in any special way.

    I think the current "adopt sentences" functionality is fine being available to everyone. My concern is specifically about providing a tool that makes it much easier to find and potentially mass-adopt sentences from inactive or suspended users.

  4. Guybrush88 commented on Oct 5, 2026

    @Guybrush88
    Author

    By the way, you don't need to be a corpus maintainer

    This may be a strong restriction, but I don't think this feature should be available to new users before they reach Advanced Contributor status. If it were available to everyone, there would be a risk of inexperienced users mass-adopting sentences without sufficient regard for grammatical correctness or their own proficiency in the language.

    This seems particularly risky in the case of suspended users: if their sentences could easily be mass-adopted through such a page, sentences that require additional review could be overlooked simply because they are no longer marked in any special way.

    I think the current "adopt sentences" functionality is fine being available to everyone. My concern is specifically about providing a tool that makes it much easier to find and potentially mass-adopt sentences from inactive or suspended users.

    I agree with this, advanced users and corpus maintainers are more suitable because they should know Tatoeba in a better way

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