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#1105866 - Mon Aug 17 2015 02:15 PM Question Quest Author Challenge
shuehorn Offline
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The description of this challenge mentions the difficulty range of 55%-95% in the first portion of the challenge, and later 55%-90% the second time it is mentioned. Which is correct? See below (bold added for clarity). Thanks!

"The Challenge:

Another trivia question: The average question writers of FunTrivia.com manage to hit about what percentage of questions that fit the desirable 55% to 95% correct answer range and are appreciated by the players if they try?
( ) 65%
( ) 80%
( ) 55%
( ) 30%

Answer: 30%. Yes, it's true. Over the first fifteen days of Question Quest, only about 30% of the questions submitted made it through the rigorous ordeal of the New Question Game with both the difficulty and the rating in the target range. Even the best writers didn't manage more than about 65%. So in order to get 50 questions into the sweet spot, you can either go and submit at least 150, or you can really spend some thought. We'd prefer the latter.

Requirements:

Awarded to a player who creates 50 rated question quest questions that were rated 0.2 or better in the New Question game and where 55% to 90% of players answered correctly. We can use these questions in many hourly/daily games and thus those few authors able to write these questions deserve special recognition!

This reward is given out automatically to qualifying players once every 12 hours."


Edited by shuehorn (Tue Aug 18 2015 06:19 AM)
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#1105907 - Mon Aug 17 2015 07:49 PM Re: Question Quest Author Challenge
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I believe it is the 95% number as I seem to get credit for the challenge for questions above 90% but lower than 95%.
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#1105956 - Tue Aug 18 2015 06:14 AM Re: Question Quest Author Challenge
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Is there somewhere that tells you how many you have toward the challenge? I just keep score myself. I have 48 if the 90-95% questions are in there and about six fewer if not.
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#1105963 - Tue Aug 18 2015 07:25 AM Re: Question Quest Author Challenge
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You can see a list here:

http://www.funtrivia.com/questionpost_rated.cfm

The link is Contributors: Question Quest Challenge and it's on the same page where you add a new question.
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#1105976 - Tue Aug 18 2015 09:23 AM Re: Question Quest Author Challenge
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Thanks, Rossian! So it is the 90% ceiling that is applied for the challenge questions. I appreciate the clarification!
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#1111278 - Tue Oct 06 2015 10:55 AM Re: Question Quest Author Challenge
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Originally Posted By: shuehorn
Thanks, Rossian! So it is the 95% ceiling that is applied for the challenge questions. I appreciate the clarification!


I tried to edit this one to show that 95% appears to be the ceiling on closer examination, but I guess the post is too old to allow editing.

I've bookmarked funtrivia rated questions on my goldmember favorites bar so that I can check more easily on my qualifying questions.

Sue
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#1142918 - Sat Aug 20 2016 10:12 PM Re: Question Quest Author Challenge
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I just noticed this discrepancy and had the same question. Since it seems like there are a fair few new, New Question Authors lately it also seems likely it could pop up again in the near future, I thought it was worth bumping this to the fore.

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#1143202 - Wed Aug 24 2016 06:36 PM Re: Question Quest Author Challenge
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Are you sure that there's an actual (as opposed to merely claimed) cap on the percentage? I've had one question at 98% and I'm pretty sure it counted. I can check again after all the questions I just had added in finish cycling through...

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