How unfortunate that an author may have no more than five proposed single questions pending review by an editor in the Question Quest game at any time. The rationale for this rationing is (1) heavy traffic, (2) a backlog, and (3) the need to provide feedback to authors.

I have five questions in the queue so no more may be offered at this moment. For reasons of obsession, I have 26 more single questions archived in a database waiting to submit.

What would be the harm in allowing me to upload those questions? Perhaps this could be a Gold Membership perquisite. Or perhaps available only to authors with X number of quizzes on-line or Y number of sunglass quizzes or Z number of Editor's Choice quizzes. Or perhaps to those who have had 100 or more questions already accepted in the Question Quest. Or perhaps to those who (like me) are extraordinarily good looking.

Whatcha think?

I think the good-looking option makes sense.

Only if the good-looking option includes those of us who were good-looking when they were younger

FatherSteve there are a few reasons for limiting question submissions to five at a time.

Unfortunately, being a Gold Member does not grant automatic writing abilities and/or knowledge of requirements! Facing 26 questions with the same errors in them is daunting and rather unfair to editors. We prefer that writers learn from the process of having their questions make it through the editing process and then apply what they have learned to subsequent submissions making them easier to edit, rather than having to point out the same requirements 26 times.

Also, if every Gold Member were to submit large numbers of questions, the queues would indeed swell and first time writers anxiously waiting to have their submissions looked at would be waiting a long time. This could discourage them from writing any more questions which would be a loss for all of us.

As to the other considerations, I imagine it would be hard for Terry to program - how does he get the system to decide who is and isn't good-looking . Beside which, this would still have the end result of flooding the queues.

I was wondering whether there were any Question Quest categories that have especially long queues? 2 of my questions have been in limbo for over a month, and I was wondering if that was the norm?

It's difficult for us to be sure of that, poshprice, because the entries are not date-stamped. We can look at a quiz and know that it's been waiting a week and we really need to get to it, but there's no way to tell how long a single question has been waiting.

I suspect other editors have the same approach to single questions that I do - I tend to look at them when for some reason, usually time, I can't edit quizzes. So a question that requires more time or effort from me than the norm will be skipped over until I have more time or energy or I'm on a better computer or..... And then of course I forget about it until the next time I'm in a hurry or tired or otherwise not up to something that needs extra work :p In my categories at least, that's why some questions languish a long time - they need a bit of thought, or consultation with another editor, or some research, or a carefully worded rejection note.

I know I shouldn't do it that way, but I do....

I have to admit that I tend to do the same. The good news is that they go into the game based on the date of the original submission, not when they are accepted, so the delay isn't too significant (apart from using up some of your allocation).

Hi FatherSteve, the General category had some backlog due to many of the editors in the category having personal issues dominating their lives at the time. Personally, I have just moved to South Korea and was getting settled here setting up my housing and work situations.

I have finally had time and cleared many of the questions from the General queue, so I hope you continue to submit your fantastic questions. And hopefully no more backlogs in the near future!

Thanks all, the responses are much appreciated.

Thank you, skunkee, for your thoughts in support of the present policy. As regards how Terry could distinguish the good-looking authors, perhaps we could all agree to be on the honour system.

And thank you, trident, for your response. I'm not really grumping about the little database in which I'm keeping my backed-up questions. I just set a personal goal of 200 accepted questions and the nearer it gets, the antsier I become. I lived in South Korea in 1970; I'm guessing it has changed a great deal since. Remember, a little kimchi every day makes your life go smoother.

Super big thanks to the editors who do so much to make this board as great as it is.

Sorry if this post is out of bounds. I didn't see a better place to put it and didnt think it was worthy of a new thread.

I recently had a single question accepted but the editor added a word to the question text. It is a question about the Olympics and I originally referenced "the 2014 Olympics" in the question text. It was adjusted to read "2014 London Olympics".

I am 100% in favor of the change in concept. I should have referenced the host city to begin with. However, the 2014 games were in Sochi. London had the games in 2012. The question is general and will probably work with either venue but for total verification, the info I have is for the Sochi games and I cannot verify for certain the question is accurate as it was originally written, for London.

I also specifically referenced Sochi in the post question info blurb, but maybe that was altered as well to say London?

In any case the question text as currently written is wrong and the info blurb may or may not need correction as well.

Hoping to fix it before it hits the New Question game, please advise.

You need to send a correction note on the question. Editors cannot see the single question and make the change until that happens.

Can I do that while it is still in queue? It was only just accepted yesterday and has not posted to the game yet. Is there a way to access it while it is in this limbo (preferably before it goes live where it likely get numerous correction notices)

Yes. Go to the 'All Accepted Submissions' link, and you will be able to see the whole question and your information. You can send a correction note from there and get it changed before it gets anywhere near the game.

Got it. Thank you both.

My experience with corrections submitted from that page is that the Correction Note only goes to the editor once the Question is in play. I submitted several right after acceptance and they didn't get fixed. Once they were in play it seems the CNs go to the editors. Congrats on having a Q accepted.

If the question is not yet in play it goes to the editor and can be fixed right away. If the question is currently in play, then the system waits until it is no longer in play and then the corrections find their way to the editors. I think it is either Tuesday or Wednesday that the question pools switch over to the next round.

Of course, it can only be fixed right away if an editor has time to tend to that part of the job. I sometimes have to leave CNs waiting for several days, because I am too busy working on full quizzes, and leave the single question submissions and CNs for another time. I am sure I am not the only editor who does not have enough time to keep everything completely up to date!

Yes, thanks for clarifying. I just meant that the editor has the capacity to fix the question right after a question is accepted. It takes a few weeks for the newly accepted questions to be played.

It is quite clear that the editors are very busy people and have lives/issues outside of FunTrivia.

Surely with the numbers of submissions, of both full quizzes and single questions, it would make sense to appoint two or three more editors to the ranks?

With over 88,000 single question submissions and who knows how many full quizzes in the past twelve months, this is a huge amount of work. I'm not surprised that some editors say that they put off editing until they feel more like it when they're confronted with such a workload... How many editors are there? About twenty or so?

Closer to 30.

We've found that the job takes a rather specific combination of skills, but don't worry, we are always on a lookout for those who appear to have those skills.

Wow - that's more than 8 single questions per day, per editor. And that's before you even look at the brunt of their work - quizzes.

Wha? That's not the number I have. Wherezat? :p

88,000 is the number of single questions that have been accepted in the last year.

88,599 to be precise.

The number is here, Kyle: http://www.funtrivia.com/questionpost.cfm