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I've had cases where an author will get a correction notice from a player. The author will go 'oh, ok' and change their quiz. Problem is, the player was actually wrong, the author was right in the first place and now the author has actually *put* an error in their quiz.

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I've actually had this happen to me a few times, and the problem with this is that (especially with the quizzes in the tv category) the episode may not have been taped, or the author picked their questions by watching several episodes and taking a couple of questions from each. If they haven't taped the episode[s], there's no way the quiz author can double check whether the player is actually correct. In other cases, authors might simply think it's easier to just post the correction the player suggested rather than go back and double check. The thing that I hate is when you post a correction yourself, knowing 100 percent that you're correct, and the quiz author just ignores the correction. That aggravates me to no end.

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I realise that editors are volunteers, and that overall, they do a great job. But I find it annoying that quizzes DO go online, with glaring errors like this.

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From my own personal experience in Quizzyland, I believe that some editors are just a lot more thorough than others. Beth is really good at what she does, she catches just about everything. The same goes for cris. Other editors just may not be as fine tuned yet.

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I'll admit that I had never heard of a president called Buchanan until I read your post, serendipity. And if Cris hadn't mentioned the US I still wouldn't have had any idea what country he was president of! So obviously I wouldn't have been able to tell that the spelling was incorrect... And yes, I am an editor.

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I bet as an editor you guys are supposed to know everything, and I don't know of anyone like that. Some will know the US presidents, just like others may know every prime minister of Australia or the UK. The editors have a lot to do, and without them, this site would not be as great as it is. They are all volunteers, and they all have lives outside of FT.

Keep it up editors, let's make this the best trivia site ever (if it isn't already )

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The thing that I hate is when you post a correction yourself, knowing 100 percent that you're correct, and the quiz author just ignores the correction. That aggravates me to no end.

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If no action is taken at all upon receiving a correction note, eventually a quiz might be taken offline,

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>> Wed Mar 23 2005 09:16 AM
>> I have just completed two quizzes where the authors used a good degree of creative spelling when referring to prominent individuals. In one of them, President James Buchanan became President James Buchannon! Surely such obvious mistakes should be detected when editors are checking quizzes for correctness. I realise that editors are volunteers, and that overall, they do a great job. But I find it annoying that quizzes DO go online, with glaring errors like this.


>> Thu Mar 24 2005 04:40 AM
>> I sent no correction note! Why should I? The quiz maker chose to ask a question about James Buchanan. His or her responsibity was to ensure that details relating to that individual were accurate. They knew enough about him to know he was the first, and so far only, bachelor President of the United States, yet they failed to take the elementary step of verifying the correct spelling of his name! As for editors being unfamiliar with the names of American Presidents. All I would say in answer to that is, that if you are an editor checking a quiz that includes questions in a particular category, then it's YOUR JOB to ensure that every morsel of information in that quiz is accurate! The editor of the relevant quiz obviously failed to familiarise themselves with the names of US Presidents. They assumed that the person submitting it, would have done that. They were wrong. One can only guess at the number of times similar assumptions have been made, and the number of times editors have been similarly wrong.

>> Thu Mar 24 2005 06:23 AM
>> Why have editors check quizzes for acuracy at all then if: "there are a lot of quiz authors who think they can just slap something together and get it online"? AND in at least some cases, it would seem, manage to do so! Perhaps suggesting that editors should ensure the accuracy of ALL information submitted in a quiz is unreasonable. However, in this instance, the basic data central to the individual about whom the quiz maker was posing the question was wrong. And it is immaterial whether the editor involved was an American citizen or not. They should have checked the accuracy of such important information.

1. you're throwing around unsubstantiated accusations like confetti. On what basis did you decide that the quiz, as you saw it, as you played it, was how it looked when an editor placed it online? Can you see something I can't? Any author can alter a quiz after it goes online.
   
2. where on this site does it state that every quiz is accurate, or that the job of an editor is to ensure it is accurate?
   
3. some stats: there are 57,608 quizzes online, and 7,500 +/- quizzes offline (under construction, or previously online but taken offline by the author or by an editor). From the day Quizzyland commenced, until this morning, 204,410 quizzes have been written.
   
4. in other words, only 28.18% of quizzes written have made it online. I've tracked this stat every quarter since June 03, and it is remarkably consistent: minimum 28.07%, maximum 28.12%.
   
5. the missing 139,302 quizzes were submitted by authors and rejected, or abandoned by their authors (in either case, they no longer exist). Would you like to have a look at the dribble we had to read, and reject? If you did, you'd be throwing bouquets at us, rather than bricks.
   
6. there are many sites on the net which accept quizzes, but they're automated; and accept anything and everything. FT is one of the few sites that examine/read/look at/vet/edit quizzes before they go online (and, furthermore, requires an explanation for each answer). FT may be the only one that's not automated but, as I don't visit many others, I wouldn't know.
   
7. this arrived in my Mailbox a few years ago from an author, after I rejected his or her masterpiece: "I want my quiz online now, there's no need to read it -- no-one at xyx.com reads my quizzes"

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If an error bothers you sufficiently to start a post about it, why on earth would you not send a correction note? This makes no sense to me.

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