Is it me, or with the new list system, is there no way to stop adding words from a particular list section, but continue studying the already added ones while adding from a later section of the same list?

Isn't this a reasonable use case? There's a particular section with hard words I want to skip, but I don't want to forget the ones from it I've already gone to the effort of learning.

Ban the ones you don't want by selecting them and using the "Ban" action, while looking at that section?

Not really easy, as there's lots of words in the section.

Actually, I want the opposite of ban. Perhaps I just copy the stuff from the start of the list into another list. But there's another whole earlier section I want to keep too.

But it seems a waste of effort. Surely the list section choosing part should at least separate study from adding.

Or maybe its just that the choice to start adding from a particular place shouldn't disable earlier sections.

Actually, THAT is the solution, and seems much less unexpected. Can it possibly be changed, please?

Shouldn't the "skip section" feature cover this case? You won't add new words from the section if you skip it.

But you also don't study the words you've already learnt from that section.

This is just about plausible for the 'skip section' selection, but its really surprising and inconvenient for the 'start adding given section' choice.

I don't understand. If you are studying a list, and you change the settings to skip a section that you've already started adding from, the words you've already added should remain in My Words, since they've already been added to My Words.

At least, that's the way I understand it to be.

No, wispfrog is right; if you skip a section, its words won't be studied as part of that list.

I thought I changed that already, where choosing the section to start from didn't automatically remove the things before it. It was causing too much confusion and general consternation.

Yeah I just checked and it's working the way you want it to already. Or it should anyway. Is it still removing the words for you if you change what section you're starting from?

Hmm, I can get it to work that way now, excellent!

I /was/ playing about with disabling sections though. I think perhaps words don't come back when a section is re-enabled until they are re-added, which of course requires the add from to be reset to the start.

Hmm, oh yes I see that. It would probably be good for if you unskip sections, the words get added back, those that you've already added previously anyway. I'll add that to the list!