With flashcard 'Descriptions', how can people have over 4000 points there?

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What's this? A perfect score for an 80-word flashcard would normally be 3 x 800 = 2400 points. But with this Flashcard, all of the top 20 have more than this 2400. How is this possible? Is this a glitch or are these old scores from a time when this flashcard had 146+ words?

Answer 1

Flashcards can be edited.

I'm sure this wasn't done to confuse, but sometimes words are wrong, or better moved to a different flashcard set. Only the author may know.

Edit:

On this set, Descriptions / Las descripciones, the usual "Created by" section on the left is missing. It may have been created by a user whose account has been deleted.

Based on its url, it appears to be the 12th flashcard set ever created. The ones I've created are way up in the 68 thousands or so.

The author of that set is Qfreed. You can ask him... - pesta, Jul 15, 2011

That's news to me. I have never seen the set before. - 0074b507, Jul 15, 2011

Oh, sorry, my mistake. Q, you own the "high score" on this set. :) - pesta, Jul 15, 2011

Ah, that must of been back when the Vocabulary list clean-up was going on. You would never believe the sets that existed back then. - 0074b507, Jul 15, 2011

Answer 2

At one time the flashcard set probably did have at least 146 entries but some words have since been deleted. I didn't say 146 words because you are only allowed 100 different words, although nothing stops you repeating the same word two or three times.