1.Quick question, mehaul? Exactly how many quizzes do YOU have online?
2.Now, can you please answer my original question?
3.Third chance- How many quizzes do you have online?


My replies synchronized
1: The all caps You: you know how that comes across. You intended to demean not be constructive. and I answered this way (not precise I agree) "I have over a 100 Qs written at around 50% rated good."
2: I have been involved in many team quizzes and they were rated well and faily I hope.
3: None in my name. I intended to learn the art of asking correct, well thought out and presented in proper English Single Questions first. I am well down that road. I then intended to learn what templates and such were when discussing whole quizzes. I've learned much of that process through the team quiz system. I feel I am ready to write a quiz in the near future. When it is taken and rated, I'd hope someone didn't just do all A's and threw a great rating on it. That would surely ruin the bloom on my creation.

Your demanding way of asking a question I've railed against in the NQG. Questions that demand "Name it." rather than properly in English phrasing the question "What is it?" But that is your way. I hope I haven't taken any of it in an unintended mean spirit.

They use microphones and Oscilloscopes these days to tune pianos.

And with that I retire. Game to jmorrow and Oz.

The point of what Highfells was doing is that the quizzes did not have a ranking, so they did not drop out of anything. Until it has been rated 20 times, the quiz is listed as 'new' and has no ranking. Giving it the ratings needed to give it a ranking would be seen by most authors as a good thing, not something to report as spam. It's been a while since I had a quiz wait for months to get 20 ratings, but one of my quizzes did wait for nearly a year, and I mourned its lack of plays every week. It was great to see the numbers creep up until it got a ranking, and I would actually have been happier with some average or poor ratings just to get the poor thing off the new list. When I see that a player has played a number of my quizzes in a short time, I generally think it means they have enjoyed them, and want more, not that they are trying to sabotage me in some way. And when a quiz makes it to 20 ratings, I rejoice, no matter what the ratings might be. (I'd love them all to be excellent, of course. :D)

I am locking this thread, Terry can re-open it if he has anything to add.