Subject: New Question Game
Posted by: moonraker2
Date: Mar 20 24
Whilst playing today's set in the New Question Game, I was surprised to be given a question submitted by a player who left FunTrivia several years ago.
Surely this doesn't qualify for inclusion as a new question, especially as it's unlikely the question pool is lacking in sufficient items. I say this with some knowledge, as I myself have three questions which were submitted and accepted almost three months ago.
Posted by: moonraker2
Date: Mar 20 24
Whilst playing today's set in the New Question Game, I was surprised to be given a question submitted by a player who left FunTrivia several years ago.
Surely this doesn't qualify for inclusion as a new question, especially as it's unlikely the question pool is lacking in sufficient items. I say this with some knowledge, as I myself have three questions which were submitted and accepted almost three months ago.
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Upstart3 
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Terry turns a switch to use old questions with relatively few ratings when the new question pool is diminished. I believe the switch back is manual and depends on a sufficient quantity of new content until which time the game works through the questions in date submitted order and hence ignores the newer questions we have submitted. I've seen questions in the new question game from people who had left FT before I started in 2012, plus some from dearly missed friends and team mates. Hopefully someone is monitoring the situation ready to switch back to normal operation! Reply #1. Mar 20 24, 11:15 AM |
kyleisalive
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Last time the question pool really dipped (sometimes we do get close to running out), it started playing some of the early NCG entries that got tossed back into the pool due to corrections (to my understanding) and these are getting re-rated to go into their respective caches. In the meantime, the waiting queue has been building up nicely and it'll probably be time to kick it to push out newer stuff exclusively again. Reply #2. Mar 20 24, 11:16 AM |
LadyNym
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I know I have a bunch of still-unplayed questions waiting to be used in the NQG. However, I need to start writing more if I want to get to 1,000 single questions by the end of this year! On a related note, it is a shame most of the single-question games we have here in the Author Lounge have been abandoned. Maybe it's time to kickstart them again? For me they were an excellent source of inspiration, and I suppose they can become one for others too. Reply #3. Mar 20 24, 11:25 AM |
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I think it comes down to the sheer amount of things to do. There are a LOT of authoring things ongoing right now, and very few of the single question routes come with actual reward. TRIC was retired to make room for the gallery. It might be worth thinking of a way to incorporate the existing single-q Lounge things into something a bit more substantial. Reply #4. Mar 20 24, 11:32 AM |
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I had a look at the single-question themed games we have in the Lounge, and I noticed that a few of them got stuck because the topics were not very user-friendly (and that's an understatement). I don't know if it would be worth doing a reset and starting again from scratch, so as to attract other authors too. After all, you get a prestige point for every six single questions approved - which is not a lot, but still better than nothing. I personally enjoyed The Grill - at least in the early stages, when I had lots of ideas - but I know it was fraught with problems, which makes a repeat unlikely. However, I'd very much look forward to any SQ-themed challenges. Reply #5. Mar 20 24, 12:37 PM |
moonraker2
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Many thanks to the responses to my initial question. It's much appreciated. Reply #6. Mar 20 24, 1:05 PM |
trident
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I'll take a look at some of the Lounge games and see if we can give some of them a nudge or a reboot. I think we are also currently looking into some kind of sitewide challenge for single questions, though there's no timeline for that one at the moment. While I used to write a lot of single questions in the past, the plethora of new quiz formats have occupied much of my time recently. I suspect that might be the case for some other authors as well. Reply #7. Mar 20 24, 5:09 PM |
pollucci19
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I'm with trident... there are so many other authoring tasks to work through at present that I don't have the time or the energy to work on single questions. The only ones I've written in recent times have arisen from the Daily Challenges page Reply #8. Mar 20 24, 7:56 PM |
FatherSteve
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moonraker2, I have observed the phenomenon of which you speak with mine own eyes. Upstart3, when people start talking about little switches which Terry turns in an out-of-sight control room, it reminds me of Toto pulling back the drapery to reveal "The Man Behind the Curtain" in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). The little dog's act revealed actor Frank Morgan, madly pulling levers and shouting into a microphone. Kyle's response helps me understand how it is that I have single new questions which have been accepted since 1 January 2024 and which have been sitting there so long that mildew is growing around their edges. LadyNym has set for herself the laudable goal of writing a thousand single new questions by the end of the calendar year. Given that you already have 951, ma'am, you'll need to write 49 questions in 286 days (which is one question every 5.8 days). trident is plagued by the "plethora" of new quiz formats which have erupted like the volcanoes of Iceland. I had a plethora once but the corpsman down in sick bay gave me this purple ointment to put on it and it cleared up right away. Now on to my own observation. The New Questions Game awards a badge to an author fifty of whose questions are accepted. Then the game awards another badge to the author who reaches one hundred. And then, next, after, subsequently ... nada, bupkes, squat, zero, naught, zip, nothing, zilch, crickets, vacancy, the vast expanse of interstellar space, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. There are six authors with over 1000 accepted questions and three more (including Nym) over 900. What do the 134 good and faithful authors who wear their one-hundred-accepted badge on a ribbon with their full evening dress have to anticipate? Reply #9. Mar 20 24, 8:55 PM |
Triviaballer
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I actually really like the idea of single questions but I'm not sure the NQ game is the best spot for them. I imagine that after they are rated they go out into the Easy, Mixed, Smartest and other games. I think many of the questions could benefit from drilling them down into a subcategory and then putting them in the expert, team heroes, GC categories, etc. Single Questions could help spruce up the Fill Me In game but I know there hasn't been a push to have FMI for single Q's or photo-based single Q's. If these types of submissions were allowed for single questions, maybe the NQ game could have 6 MC questions, 2 FMI and 2 photo per set and rebalance that ratio depending on the number of submissions. To piggyback on Kyle's Hot (Current) Topic for regular quizzes list, why not count hot topic single questions also? Maybe it could be the same ratio (10 SQ on hot topics = 1 quiz or have a separate Hot Topic SQ badge). Current event/topic trivia is definitely an area lacking on FT. Reply #10. Mar 20 24, 9:39 PM |
spanishliz
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Wouldn't you know that I'd get the "write two questions" Daily Challenge today, just as I was planning to comment here that the only time I write single questions any more is when I get that challenge? I actually prefer writing quizzes to single questions, and have been having much more fun using the new formats than I've ever had with single questions. Reply #11. Mar 21 24, 7:24 AM |
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