We're all Bozos on this bus.

     In the US, there's a standard reply given to children who protest parental prohibitions by whining, "But everybody's [going, doing it, being there, having some]":

     "If everybody jumped off a cliff, would you?"

     Now, I don't know if there are equivalent expressions in the other English-speaking countries whose citizens virtually cohabitate here. I don't know if parents in England even tell their children 'no' anymore. Nonetheless, it's a common concept that the number of people doing something has no real effect on its correctness. If you believe otherwise, I direct you to Germany, 1938. QED.

     "So what?" you may ask and well you may. "What" is the fact that there are a definite few irritations that interfere with allowing the FT experience to reach the pristine level of trivial ecstasy it has such potential to be.

     What?

     As with a small rock in my shoe, I am irritated by the occasion, every so often, of taking a quiz that happens to overlap the turn of the hour. Thus, when the Submit button is hit, there is no record of me ever having taken that quiz!

     As well, even though I see the green dot in the radio button, I am told that I did not answer certain questions.

     And finally, in the Global quizzes and Hourly games, there are occasionally questions pulled from quizzes constructed in a manner that depends on an initial set of concepts or instructions. Within the realm of the quiz itself as published, the questions will make perfect sense. But, culled and placed in the hodge-podge of the Global & Hourly games, they lay naked and writhing in their irrelevance to anything around them, making their answer nearly impossible if a timely score is desired.

     When I have raised the question of these discrepancies, the answer has come back that "everybody suffers the same handicaps." As if putting a tack on everybody's chair would make the universal discomfort easier for each butt to absorb.

     There is no logic in this. I wonder if it would be posssible to alter the code so that:

A) A quiz begun before the turn of the hour would be finished, even if not visibly scored and/or ranked.

B) A more definitive marker could be worked to ensure the recognition of answered questions, and

C) Quizzes that are constructed in a conjugal or cascading fashion could have their questions somehow tagged so that they would not ever be pulled and placed into an out-of-context combination game.

     Perhaps not. Such improvements may involve too much work and detail to be justified. They may be pert' near imposssible.  Regardless, they stand in the way of FT being perfect. 

     But I won't stop just because there's a rock in my shoe every so often. Even if it does feel like Gibraltar once in a while.