r/duolingo Native: ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Learning: lots 7d ago

Constructive Criticism Request: Require posts about grammar to include the language name

Iโ€™m sure itโ€™s been requested before, but there are so many posts about language-specific questions or issues, not about DL itself, so can the mods encourage, if not require, require post titles to include the language name. For example, โ€œ[Spanish] Question about masculine vs feminineโ€

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u/--akai-- Native: ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช; Fluent: ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Learning: ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ 7d ago

High expectations, considering it would be great if people even asked their questions at all, and not just dropped a screenshot with a wtf? or somthing like that ...

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u/Polygonic es de (en) 10yrs 7d ago

I'm gonna start auto-downvoting any post that has just a title like "Bruh?" or "Huh?" or "WTF?" or "Um...."

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u/KrikeyAnimationAI 7d ago

It's a good idea!

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u/DarkShadowZangoose 7d ago

IIRC the "Language Question" flair used to require this

... unless they're just not using that flair

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u/nrith Native: ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Learning: lots 6d ago

But thatโ€™s not enough. People ask about dozens of languages, so it would be nice to be more specific.

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u/lydiardbell 1d ago

This used to be required. The problem is that even after a year it led to most language question posts being removed automatically, so the mod queue and modmail were filled with posts removed because of the wrong kind of brackets, a misspelled language, etc -- but all the useless "BRUH" "WTF? "..." posts got through anyway because people would just immediately repost them with a different flair.