Sorry Michael. I didn't mean to give you a hard time. But you've been a big help. Thank you.
I think this is probably the first question a volunteer would have. So hopefully one day there will be a Q&A page where we can easily find it.
low quality sentences are those that are "unnatural" or "difficult to read" to a native speaker.
Some sentences:
- are overlong or verbose (like the same phrase over and over again).
- feel like a competition for the smoothness of the tongue. (In short, it's a hard word to say, like a word of foreign origin or a tongue twister.)
- aren't complete (they're in the middle).
- have foreign words mixed in.
I think you're right, third party approval is necessary.
As for sorting the sentences, I don't think it's a problem.
I "ignore" sentences that I can't decide if they are "yes" or "no". That could be 100 or 200. Then, when I resumed work, I would have to click the arrow button again and again to see the sentence I hadn't seen before. Or is there a way to move around the page with ease?
...... Maybe, but I'm the only one on the Japanese language Collector right now. The numbers don't work at all while I'm gone. So there are a lot of sentences left that I can't decide on. I don't know how the other languages are working.
I feel tremendous about having to review another 100,000 or 150,000 sentences, maybe alone. So, I tend to give a thumbs up to my own sentences. As for self-review, you mentioned it in Sentence Collector - Review before Submit.