# ner.manual: Accept/Reject confusion

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/ner-manual-accept-reject-confusion/3913>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** usage, ner, solved\
**Created:** [February 21, 2021, 11:28am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/ner-manual-accept-reject-confusion/3913 "2021-02-21T11:28:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 12:53am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/ner-manual-accept-reject-confusion/3913/2 "2021-02-22T00:53:15Z")

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Hi! If you're annotating manually, you should ideally correct the annotations and hit accept, so that the answer you're submitting is the final and correct one. If that's not possible, e.g. because the tokenization doesn't match, there are OCR issues or other problems, you can hit reject to exclude the example from training and to separate it from the examples you skip for other reasons. See this thread for details:

> [@When to reject in ner.manual or ner.make-gold?](https://support.prodi.gy/t/when-to-reject-in-ner-manual-or-ner-make-gold/892/2):
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> I think I found the answer while looking for something else. In this answer @honnibal brings it right to the point: To save others the click: One should only accept. Rejection is a way to mark serious trouble like wrong tokenizations.

Alternatively, as of Prodigy v1.10, you can also use the `buttons` setting in your config to disable the reject button entirely: [Installation & Setup · Prodigy · An annotation tool for AI, Machine Learning & NLP](https://prodi.gy/docs/install#config)

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