Wait a second. You are completely changing Fill Me In now. There are those of us who like an entirely FITB quiz. Calling it Fill Me In doesn't even make sense any more.
Please play the game before jumping to conclusions and before making assumptions as to how it's going to be. Again, you're asserting the 'royal we' when giving your subjective opinion about the game.
The game is still completely FITB. It had T/F and Y/N questions before the changes in the same format as it exists now (ie. typing T or F or Y or N).
As Terry said and I've alluded to in responses to your posts specifically (in these forums AND in the Author Lounge board, the latter of which was a response you asked me to follow up on), FMI was a game slated for either big changes or, even more likely, complete removal. This is not new news. This isn't a case of 'if it ain't broke'. If you read my post in the Word Wizard thread, this game
has been broke. Terry is fixing it instead of scrapping it.
I don't know how we can make changes or potential improvements if every one of them is going to be met with instant retaliation from you. And I know this is likely coming across as harsh, but it's been like clockwork in almost every thread about game changes-- this time, within a couple hours of the actual changes (many of which haven't happened, like volunteers being able to whitelist questions for inclusion in the game) and within the span of a single play of the game. Just like with the homepage and design changes from last year, please give some things a chance to settle before asking us to change them back (or, as has been said for this game, asking us to get rid of FMI altogether. Because that's the other option.).
(Edit to add: To note my response from the Author Lounge post I mentioned above wherein you
specifically asked for an more FMI questions:
Gracious1: "What do you think about my suggestion to relax the FITB rule for extremely experience quiz writers? The Fill Me In game could use an injection of fresh questions."
-- I think that all-FITB quizzes, based on feedback from players, are not a direction I want to see, especially for the express purpose of bulking up a game that would need much more of an overhaul than just a set of new questions. I've always been under the belief that a fully-formed, cohesive quiz is the ideal route, and that does not lend itself quite as easily to having its questions plucked out for something like FMI.
To sum up an answer to your question there, and this is my personal answer, and not an answer on behalf of anyone on the staff:
-FMI needs to be fixed/replaced to be better for mobile/tablet users (and I don't have a solution for that because it's not really my field on the site) and that fix is not solved by pumping new questions into it. And yes, I know that we have a small, vocal subset of people who are not for this attitude, but the reality is that it's a thing and unless FT bends to accommodate mobile and tablet users, it will not get new players. We can't survive in the past.
-We should be making choices on FT that work for all authors and do not just grant more privileges to a select few who've already done a lot of work.
-We should always be considering quality over quantity. I would not reject a well-written all-FITB quiz in my categories from a capable author as-is. But there's a reason you don't see any, and it's not because we say no. We should not be actively telling people to make them
Terry's changes actually look to improve on this in the best way with the path of least resistance, and it seems to fulfill exactly what you were looking for-- more questions for FMI by updating the cache with fresh questions.)
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