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[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
If agencies value MT so much, let them just sell the MT output. Or even better, tell clients to put their texts through GT themselves and be done with it
I also received this email. I have never subscribed, never logged in, never worked and will never via this platform. I blocked these emails, so these emails go to spam. Many of us asked ho
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
Sorry to have worried you, Katalin. My mistake. I glanced at your name while I was typing my reply, I was in reply mode. That's when you only see the nam
[quote]Kay Denney wrote:
Katalin, I see you as a paying member, and Bernard as not.
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Thank you, Kay to confirm it.
Well, this is the correct data: I am a subscriber
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
[quote]Katalin Szilárd wrote:
Or a member's profile is sometimes shown in Proz Find, sometimes not. The weird thing is that according to her login data
to navigate the mass to "accept" this bot apocalypse on the site.
As far as I know other sites were ordered by the law to get rid of them.
Also there is a site that received a totall
[quote]Marina Steinbach wrote:
[quote]Katalin Szilárd wrote:
1 profile/1 person was a really good idea, but this rule doesn't seem to apply for everybody...
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Yes, it su
All non-human bots on this site should be banned. I'm talking about bots that are programmed to stirring up debates to navigate the mass into a world that is not good for human translators
[quote]Katalin Horváth McClure wrote:
Kerestem össze-vissza, de nem találtam, ezért gondoltam megkérdezem, hátha van valakinek ötlete, hol lehet ilyet találni.
Tehát egy olyan
[quote]Katalin Horváth McClure wrote:
Whether it is intended or not is another issue, but one of the effects of posting these trending words as KudoZ questions is that ProZ pages show
[quote]Andrea Capuselli wrote:
in an attempt to aid in the general effort to make accurate translations available for volunteer translators, reporters and the general public. The ques
[quote]Andrea Capuselli wrote:
[quote]Katalin Szilárd wrote:
I don't know whether other language pairs have experienced that 80% of Kudoz became medical Kudoz recently. Since questi
I don't know whether other language pairs have experienced that 80% of Kudoz became medical Kudoz recently. Since questions are not asked by translators, there are many extremely easy
It wouldn't be a problem to be partners with these companies or other companies, if they served professional translators with decent rates and not the low-end.
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
I just wanted to mention that the need to distance myself from what I called low-bidders and job posters (I should say cheap job posters - mostly ones th
[quote]Chris S wrote:
... why a good translator would feel a need to be on some such elite job board.
Surely, if you’re good, you won’t need to be drumming up business constantly
[quote]Jean Dimitriadis wrote:
Another platform I'd like to suggest is called "Direct clients".
No bidding system, no fees, less competition, but there is some active marketing/c
And this is the 2nd time I'm using it recently. First I used it a couple of days ago in a Kudoz answer. :)
Anyway, if translation industry is changing in that (wrong) way, maybe it is t
[quote]Fiona Grace Peterson wrote:
I see nothing sinister in this entire affair. This is how the translation industry operates nowadays. Luckily we have choices. Just as this agency i
[quote]jyuan_us wrote:
As long as you deliver a job on time and no quality issue is raised by the client, he will be willing to make a WWA entry, if you request him to do so. It won't b
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
Not every good translator participates in KudoZ, not every good translator is able to respond first or respond with a sufficiently "helpful" answer, etc.
06:59 Not Logged In Delaware, United States
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[quote]Geoffrey Adams wrote:
Hello everybody,
I have been a member here for several years but this is my first post here. I have been working for a translation agency for several
I didn't give any permissions to OneDocument Translation Workspace to send me emails or using my data.
I received an email from them again on the 12th of February.
I remember a few y
It was a really great tool... it was worth it to look at ... in the past.
Past: when directories were working normally (settings/implementations were done not against freelance translato
the biggest question is recently: the new outlook of the Kudoz system.
If somebody scrolls back to my previous posts in this thread can understand what I was talking about...
[quote]cll wrote:
Translators are not the only ones affected by automation, other professions have seen this happen to them. Even software developers will soon be replaced by software t
[quote]Guofei_LIN wrote:
.... just as we are grateful for the technology progress in the last two centuries that enable us to lead a more enriched life, even if a lot of professions wer
[quote]Guofei_LIN wrote:
[quote]Katalin Szilárd wrote:
I'm wondering what they will say in this dystopic future to their children, grandchildren or even totally unknown younger
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
We live in a system in which the only ultimate aim is to generate profit. Anything - no matter how necessary it may be - that doesn't generate a profit doesn
I am not against technology at all. But what is going on now is totally insane. It is way different than any other previous industrial revolutions. People who are pushing these hypes s
[quote]Lincoln Hui wrote:
[quote]Dan Lucas wrote:
[quote]Jean Chao wrote:
I submitted my registration via California Secretary of Department website ($75 for registration; $800
[quote]Heinrich Pesch wrote:
If you have to log on repeatedly could it be you don't allow cookies? Just guessing.
If I were to search for translators for a project I would use the proz
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
I think you should have more reasonable expectations -- very few people who visit this contact page will actually read all of the text on that page.
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
Do you mean, why do I redact personal information from screenshots that I post on public forums?
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Updated:
Now I see. You made the fi
[quote]Kay Denney wrote:
I'm not sure what your problem is with the agency that doesn't heed your requests.
To my mind, it's the equivalent to a glaring typo in your profile, you can s
Thank you for your replies, Samuel.
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
[quote]Katalin Szilárd wrote:
When I log in, the homepage looks like: all white page with only the texts of th
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
[quote]Katalin Szilárd wrote:
Since September if I log in I can see a weird page after that. Like a demo page. If I clicked further I could use the site.
1. Since September if I log in I can see a weird page after that. Like a demo page. If I clicked further I could use the site.
2. In Proz Find search the "Recent searches you've appeare
[quote]DZiW wrote:
[quote]...there are many charities that are really based on honesty and real help, and they are working without any commercial or hidden intentions[/quote]Katalin,
[quote]The Misha wrote:
To quote the punchline of a well-known Russian joke, and these are the people who forbid me to pick my nose!
I need not read any articles, however lengthy or
https://www.proz.com/forum/post_editing_machine_tr anslation/336641-who_is_not_using_mt_today-page5.h tml#2807566
Especially point 2.
"2. Programmed hype based on the above schem
[quote]Michele Lemieux-Madison wrote:
Tom,
I don't know about your agency in particular, but you may check out Slator.com. They write about our industry and who is buying who, and who
[quote]Guofei_LIN wrote:
Meanwhile, among human translators, the best translators still have to fight with mediocre ones for the crumbs and spending four-years in college to get a d
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
[quote]Ekhangel wrote:
..... I am pretty sure this industry is going down pretty soon (meaning significant reduction in demand, not complete death) [/
[quote]Dan Lucas wrote:
I have found that very challenging deadlines are the hallmark of bad clients. I don't mean malicious or deceptive clients, but firms that are disorganised and
I tested with another member: his profile appears to be online on Proz Find when he is not online.
He doesn't receive almost any job related emails via his profile although in the directo
I am also wondering about what kind of crawlers (?) could be viewer type "Virginia, United States", because when I post or send a support ticket about such anomalies these start to visit
Since 2 days I saw weird searches on ProzFind: Somali to Somali + special characters and dot com in the deep search part. This search was done so many times I doubt it was done by a pe
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