Hey editors,
I have a few suggestions for changes which would very much improve *my* Quizzyland experience, and I think most other people's as well.

1) Make it easier to search for quizzes *by Quiz-Maker*. I do not think it is elitist for me to say that there is a very small number of people consistently making really good quizzes, and that most of the quizzes are just so much chaff. I think almost everyone would agree with that statement -- it's just that not everyone would agree on the identity of the "good" quizzes/quiz-makers. One man's wheat, after all, is another man's chaff. But it should be easy to make one's self a "cult follower" of the handful of quiz-makers one thinks is excellent. In fact, I would like to be able to sign up to be alerted each time a given quiz-maker makes a new quiz.

My other suggestions are similarly motivated:

2) You have a page where one can see the top 50 user-rated games. That is somewhat useful, but what I really would like to be able to see is, when I go to search for quizzes by topic (say, Mythology), the top 5 or 10 user-rated quizzes within that topic (or subtopic!). (Because, frankly, the top 50 goes a *little* of the way to distinguishing some of the quality games from the rest of the 40,000+ quizzes out there, but not far enough; consider: to someone (like myself) not interested in the pop culture quizzes, the very best "Dawson's Creek" quiz in the universe is quite indistinguishable from a lousy "Dawson's Creek" quiz. So if 20 of the top 50 are TV quizzes, and 15 more are teen music, and another 5 are celebrities, the top 50 doesn't help me find the quality that *I* happen to be looking for -- and surely that is the reason for posting the top 50.)

3) Even more useful, but requiring a little more effort to set up (although it could certainly be phased in gradually, thus not requiring massive set-up transaction costs), would be to have, within each topic or subtopic, a list of "Editors' Picks": the quizzes the editors themselves think are head and shoulders above the rest (if any) for that particular sub-genre of quiz. This needn't be a "top 5" or anything like that, forcing the editors to argue over which is fifth-best versus sixth-best -- just the ones, however many it is, that the editors roughly agree are 10-out-of-10 quizzes, for whatever private reason. If this list were completely redundant with the user-ranking list compiled by the vox populi, that would be interesting; if there were only limited overlap that would be interesting as well.

...I don't think doing this would cause the quizzes not distinguished never, ever to be seen -- once a user has done all the "quality" quizzes in his/her genres of choice, the user will naturally start cherry-picking through the remaining quizzes in those genres, and also take new quizzes as they get generated -- but I think everyone would be thankful for the chaff-separating headstart these "reforms" would provide.

Thanks for your consideration, and I apologize for the long-windedness of this post.

This post has been "cross-posted" to the Feedback Forum.

Thanks for your suggestions. Some are already partially addressed.
Point 1. It is possible to find out other quizzes by a particular quizmaker by clicking on that quizmaker's name, from the list of quizzes in any category.

Point 2. It is possible to find the thirty top ranking quizzes within each major category, by clicking on Top Ranking. This is near the top of the page. It looks like this: Category features - Newest Games - Top Ranking.

Point 3. Some categories have a sub-category -
A1 The Best of ...... These are editors' picks and are chosen by the editors of the category.
Some categories with this feature are Geography; Hobbies; Humanities; Literature; Seasonal and World.

[ 12-27-2001: Message edited by: minch ]

Xaosdog, here's one way to accomplish suggestion 1:

Click on this link:
http://www.funtrivia.com/
Scroll down about 2/3 the way on the page
Locate in the right-hand column and click on the link labeled "The Quiz Makers!"
Use the "Find" function on your computer to locate your favorite quiz maker and click on that person's ID (in my Windows computer, it's Cntrl-F)

Here's another way: Go to where you get the list of all of your quizzes. In the URL (top of your screen) replace YOUR user ID with the person you're looking for.