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[meta] Suggestions and an early 'DIES·LOQVAX·LVNAE'

Salvete!

We just had a meta post on, essentially, the state of the subreddit, and there there appeared a number of not-unreasonable suggestions for the subreddit - the following:

Maybe we could have regular threads designated for high-quality Latin composition with the expectation of pointing out errors and infelicities.


Perhaps, flares to denote people who are confirmed fluent?


I propose a quality assurance team that goes through and gives some sort of stamp of approval/ criticism beyond the upvote/ downvote/ ignore system. There isn't really that much traffic; I think it's doable.

Regarding the first: last Monday u/AutoModerator was used to create a automatic weekly sticky with a similar purpose, the text of which is intended to be this:

For the English speakers amongst us, this thread marks a Multiloquous Monday; it's specifically for conversing in Latin!

We encourage you to join in, whether you want to follow the suggested theme, or participate in a similar fashion to r/CasualConversation! It's always good to devise sentences of your own, where you are creating meaning as well as translating; even if you don't think it'll be exactly right, doing so allows someone to show you where you've made a mistake. If you don't believe that you can manage translating a phrase into Latin, try translating others' posts back into English, or just ask how to do something.

The flair verification is very much possible without removing the ability to set custom flairs, if anyone's worried about losing their quotations.

What do you think of both the above post and the three ideas outlined? Should we have such things? Should the post's body be edited, to, for example, make explicit the encouragement of correction? Are there any further suggestions?

Although this is a meta post, responses can of course be in Latin.

- tribuni

Posted Apr 12, 2015, 10:10 AM UTC · edited

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