Suggest a feedback button to sutra text

[abhinav1]

Hello

It will be very helpful if there is a feedback button in the dropdown in the sutra text, so that if we have to give feedback, it can be easy instead of launching the forum, creating a separate topic, choosing category as feedback etc. and then giving feedback.

[Snowbird]

All of the feedback of typos goes into this single thread:

Make a rainbow fall at our feet tell us about our mistakes, typos, and other oversights

Thanks for letting us know what we can improve! When it comes to legacy translations—i.e. translations that we have inherited from elsewhere—corrections will be limited to obvious typos and mistakes. While we try to source the best quality work we can, it’s not our job to edit or correct other peoples’ translations. We do not make any changes to the original language texts in Pali, Sanskrit, etc. The only exception is occasional details of punctuation, markup, and the like, but not the…

You are correct that having a bunch of separate posts doesn’t work well. From time to time Bhante Sujato goes through that thread and makes the corrections if he agrees with them. Then every few months he starts a new one. You can always find it as the pinned thread in the feedback forum.

I can’t speak for the devs, but I imagine that it’s helpful to have at least a little bit of friction to make a suggested correction. Otherwise people might spam it.

[sujato]

When you say,

@abhinav1

It will be very helpful if there is a feedback button in the dropdown in the sutra text

what I hear is, “Please spend $100,000 and six months of your time to make it easy for bots to spam your website.”

@Snowbird

it’s helpful to have at least a little bit of friction to make a suggested correction

Indeed it is.