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I'm curious why any quiz would make you 'seeth with anger' though, even poor quality quizzes are normally only meant as a bit of fun.

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OK, perhaps a bit of an exaggeration there! Questions which are highly ambiguous do get on my nerves, and FITB questions which have Americanised spelling.

I didn't rate at first, but always do now and (when appropriate) try to remember to send compliments as well as correction notices...

I got into some interesting territory when using the 'those who liked also like' option the other day. I was wondering why all the quizzes it was leading me to seemed much easier than where I started, until I looked a bit closer and realised I had crossed into 'For Children'! Still, it was interesting.

I always rate a quiz as a lot of others have said if someone takes time to do a quiz then we should take some time out to rate it. I like the "Players who liked this quiz also liked these quizzes".If you have done well on one then you often find you do well on others the same, then comes the feel good factor. In fact i think i have learnt more in the few weeks i have been on here than i ever did at school lol. Hmmmmm don't think i'll ever be brave enough to submit a quiz though, so well done those that do!

I rate quizzes as a matter of course. (However, on those occasions when I send a compliment or correction I sometimes forget to go back and rate).

It seems to me important that quizmakers, players and editors get some kind of feedback. Simply rating is, after all, an unsensational and civilized way of doing this.

I tend to rate by instinct. There are some things that I particularly dislike, though:

1. Long-winded questions stuffed full of material that should go into the notes and not the question itself.

2. Quizzes that ask the player to guess the quizmaker's mind. I can't stand quizzes that are gratuitously intolerant of uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.

(Recently I played a quiz where one of the mulitple-choice questions asked players to choose between "It's me" and "It's I" as correct! So I had to guess what kind of person the quizmaker is. Moreover, how nit-picking, finger-wagging and downright stupid can people get?)

3. Quizzes with short scanty notes which tell me nothing.

4. Quizzes where the author boasts in the introduction that the quiz is the "hardest ever" on the topic and the like.

Good thoughts on the "Players who liked this quiz..." feature. I have spent hours sometimes following that trail and have ended up 180 degrees away from where I started. I remember starting in Entertainment>Comics>Peanuts and ending up somewhere in Hobbies>Games&Toys>Board Games. It's always an adventure. Thanks for all the thoughts folks.

It's never a problem for me.