When not to fail a flashcard?

(2016-05-08, 7:25 pm)RawrPk Wrote: Suspending might be a good call possibly. Suspend one of them and when you're at a point where that particular card is mature, you can then unsuspend the similar card.

Though it might be a a longer process but IMO wouldn't it be also as long dealing with them both? I think it's an option to consider.

I've already been down this route and it's not a bad one, but I'm not so sure how good it is either.  Even mature cards can become confusing once you add a cards that looks a lot like it.  This happened to me about 6 months ago when I un-suspended several hundred leeches.

I'm actually not sure that suspending leeches helped me in the long run.  Suspending leeches helps somewhat when you are only concerned with the raw number of facts learned.  However if you are concerned with learning a specific set of facts, it may be desirable to just power through it.  

The main problem with suspending leeches (and to a lesser extent, manually suspending) is that you are already so far into the learning process that suspending won't save time compared to continuing.  In other words, for facts that you absolutely want to know, suspending will be beneficial only if studying the card at a later date will take less time than continuing to study it now.