What happens if I delete all my ghosts?

Bunpro
#1

I’ve been using Bunpro for the past 18 months or so and for the past weeks I realized about the ghost mechanic, etc.

I had hundreds of reviews and I even reached a point in which I didn’t add any more lessons (lately I was adding mostly vocabulary) because I thought I wouldn’t be able to keep up the pace.

Turns out that my 300 review queue is composed by almost 120 ghosts.

Today I discovered you can actually delete every ghost, but… what this would do? Reset that point to Beginner or…?

Is this a thing that you recommend me?

#2

Ghosts are completely unnecessary and don’t effect review level. I never used them and turned them off. Many others do the same.

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#3

You can delete them, yes.

But what happens when you’re reviewing all those grammar points? As you’re doing the ghost reviews, do you think, “I can’t believe they’re asking me this again. I know this backwards and forwards.” Or do you have to think about each question?

Personally, I often have to think, which means that I still need that practice on those points. For me, deleting those ghosts would mean that I don’t get as much practice on just the points that I need to work most on.

So it’s up to you. If deleting the ghosts means that you won’t abandon your practice sessions, delete away. Or if you’re good at remembering things until the next time that point comes up again, delete away.

But if you’re just frustrated that your reviews are adding up, yet the questions are still a bit challenging—well, it might be that the best thing to do is to study those points more, to stop adding new items of any kind, and just to master these items by doing the ghost reviews.

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#4

If you delete all your ghosts you die in real life

Really though if you delete the ghosts it just deletes the ghosts

If you don’t feel like they’re helping you, delete them and maybe adjust the levels of the grammar points you’re struggling with

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#5

Thanks,

The thing is, how is a ghost created? And, can a ghost be created from, for example, an Expert Level item? If you delete a ghost then, it goes back to Expert?

#6

Having ghosts doesn’t actually affect the level of that specific grammar point of vocab item. Say you’ve got a grammar point at Seasoned 2, and you get that grammar point wrong twice in one review session. The grammar point will go down to Seasoned 1 (unless your settings are different from default), and a ghost gets created. That specific ghost sentence has the stages “Ghost 1”, “Ghost 2”, “Ghost 3” and “Ghost 4”, but the grammar point itself stays as Seasoned 1. The ghost sentence exists as a separate entity from the grammar point and does not overwrite the stage of the grammar point. It’s even possible to have multiple ghost sentences related to a single grammar point (you can create them manually if you like).

This means that deleting your ghosts has no effect on the stages of your grammar points whatsoever.

[Edit] Oh, as for how ghosts are created. By default, they appear when you get a single review wrong twice during the same review session. It’s possible to change this behaviour in your settings. You know how, when you get a review wrong, the same sentence returns at the end of the review session (the wrap-up)? If you get it wrong again during wrap-up, that’s when the ghost appears.

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#7

I dunno. A lot of the grammar hints are worded pretty ambiguously and it’s relatively inconsistent about which (still grammatical) answers it will bounce with a hint and which it will mark wrong, though I think they’ve made improvements on that recently. I think ghosts would be just as effective if they had fewer than four stages.

#8

As others have said, you can delete and turn off ghosts. But if you still want them, I find that setting my review order to ghosts first helps keep them down and drill the point into my head.

Also, 120 ghosts seems pretty high for only 300 reviews. Maybe it’s set to create a ghost for every wrong answer?