#441529 - Thu Oct 02 2008 01:08 PM
Re: Poor/Very Poor ratings?
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Prolific
Registered: Sun Jun 24 2007
Posts: 1178
Loc: California USA
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My default rating wavers between average and good. I used to generally rate quizzes higher before stuthehistoryguy reset the standard of what was truly excellent with an exceptionally great quiz on Caddyshack.  I don't rate quizzes as poor or very poor all that often but there are a few reasons why I might. For instance: - If it is really poorly written with errors as people mentioned above; - It contains the phrases "This is should be easy" or "You should have gotten this one". I find that very irritating; - There are blatant errors in the quiz; - The questions are long winded to the point that the font has to be shrunken down just to fit into the question box. Most of the times I run into this, though, is with the quizzes from around 2000-2001 or so when the standards were apparently much lower.
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#441532 - Mon Nov 24 2008 04:56 AM
Re: Poor/Very Poor ratings?
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Prolific
Registered: Mon Mar 12 2007
Posts: 1408
Loc: Hartlepool Durham England UK
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Plus quizzes can be rated poor/very poor for other reasons than being a "bad quiz" - some subjects are emotive and people vote with their "morals" or according to their personal views rather than on the actual crafting of the quiz.
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#441533 - Mon Nov 24 2008 07:00 AM
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Enthusiast
Registered: Thu May 24 2007
Posts: 449
Loc: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
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The only time I have rated a quiz poor has been when it has been littered with poor grammar and basic spelling mistakes. Also, on occasion, when it is poorly researched, or has incorrect data.
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#441535 - Mon Nov 24 2008 11:33 AM
Re: Poor/Very Poor ratings?
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Explorer
Registered: Mon Apr 03 2006
Posts: 80
Loc: Birmingham UK
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I've often wondered this - do all quizzes stay online indefinitely (assuming there's no unresolved C/Ns outstanding)?
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#441536 - Mon Nov 24 2008 03:17 PM
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Registered: Sun Apr 29 2001
Posts: 4095
Loc: Norwich England�UK���ï...
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do all quizzes stay online indefinitely (assuming there's no unresolved C/Ns outstanding)?
Yes. We don't have a spring clean.
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#441537 - Sat Dec 20 2008 12:34 PM
Re: Poor/Very Poor ratings?
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Participant
Registered: Tue Jul 08 2008
Posts: 19
Loc: Southampton England UK
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I certainly use poor/very poor for quizzes with 'stupid' questions, no explanation of why a particular answer is correct (eg odd one out questions), poor grammar, and obnoxious comments such as 'here's an easy one' or 'hpe you didn't fall for...'.
I also downgrade quizzes with FITB answers when it seems the author simply could not be bothered to think of viable alternatives to offer.
I do rate excellent for quizzes with 'fresh' questions that make you think "I should know that but I haven't seen that question before". Sadly, those excellent ratings are fairly rare. I tend to rate good/average, with average reserved for quizzes packed with those questions you've already seen a hundred times.
If you weren't meant to use a 5-point scale, there wouldn't be five options.
Marc
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#441538 - Sun Dec 21 2008 08:56 PM
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Participant
Registered: Wed Nov 05 2008
Posts: 14
Loc: Fort Wayne Indiana USA
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I use Good and Average the most, but I am not afraid to use the Poor rating. I think I have only rated 4 quizzes Very Poor though.
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#441540 - Mon Jan 26 2009 08:44 PM
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Mainstay
Registered: Fri Sep 07 2007
Posts: 737
Loc: Bedford England UK
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Paige's comes closest to my approach to ratings. My default rating is good, and there is no correlation between my rating and my score.
If there are questions about blades of grass, and shirt colours, I may not even bother to finish the quiz.
I will also drop a rating for trick questions. Thank goodness they're rare.
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#441541 - Mon Jan 26 2009 10:18 PM
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Explorer
Registered: Tue Feb 26 2008
Posts: 95
Loc: Philly Pennsylvania USA
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I usually rate quizzes good but if I really enjoyed them, I will rate them excellent. Not to sound unfair or anything but I tend to rate my friends quizzes higher because I usually know about all the time and hard work they put into them.
I would never rate a quiz poor or very poor because it's just plain mean. Even if I don't agree with what the person says is the answer, I am sure they took time to create the quiz. I doubt the editors would let it go online with major errors or mistakes.
I also wish we could have a breakdown of ratings and it would be nice to see who rated them but I'm sure that would cause trouble so I doubt anyone else agrees with this.
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#441542 - Sun Feb 01 2009 12:07 AM
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Forum Champion
Registered: Tue Jan 20 2009
Posts: 5976
Loc: Briar Hill Victoria Australia
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My default rating has gone down since I have taken so many quizzes - at the start, I was more impressed with some types of quiz than I am now after taking a zillion or so in the same vein. Also, my experience of writing quizzes has given me insight into how difficult/easy certain types of quiz are to construct. Most quizzes now are Average!
When a quiz seems to be innovative, and/or especially well researched and constructed, my rating does go up, of course, but Excellents are few and far between.
Poor (and very rarely Very Poor) ratings are given for quizzes that are carelessly constructed (for example, drop a letter and scramble quizzes which simply have an incorrect word that cannot be produced,) or contain lots of spelling and grammar errors, or have multiple factual inaccuracies, or (my pet peeve) insult me by telling me, either in the question or in the extra information, that the question about which I haven't a clue is "An easy one" or "If you don't know this, you shouldn't be taking this quiz". I often take quizzes in order to learn, not to boost my ego about what I already know!
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#441545 - Wed Feb 04 2009 12:06 PM
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Forum Adept
Registered: Mon Feb 27 2006
Posts: 150
Loc: South Carolina USA
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I haven't read very many of the comments here, so I can't really compare my methodology for rating a quiz to what other people might do. I must confess that I don't rate them as often as I used to, but when I do it is usually to rate it excellent. I really don't think there are that many poor or very poor quizzes on the site, but I do believe the editing leaves something to be desired. Rarely are my corrections answered, and I don't make one unless I feel I'm on firm ground. The quizzes I rate poor or very poor, and there aren't very many of them, tend to be ones that I feel are unnecessarily cheeky, or made deliberately difficult to stoke the ego of the quizmaker. Don't get me wrong, I could do lousy on a quiz and still give it a high rating.
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#441547 - Wed Feb 04 2009 04:05 PM
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Registered: Sun Apr 29 2001
Posts: 4095
Loc: Norwich England�UK���ï...
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I doubt the editors would let it go online with major errors or mistakes.
Many quizzes that I edit are on topics about which I have no previous knowledge.
Checking all the information given by quiz authors is simply not practical ... As far as I know, this is the case for all the editors. Obviously, if I find something that seems implausible or that doesn't make sense, I would query it, but all the editors depend heavily on quiz authors doing their own research properly. When checking correction notices I have found valid corrections on matters of factual accuracy.
Please do not assume that because an answer is online on this site it is necessarily accurate.
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#441548 - Fri Feb 06 2009 08:44 PM
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Prolific
Registered: Fri Aug 20 2004
Posts: 1302
Loc: Omaha Nebraska USA
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I doubt the editors would let it go online with major errors or mistakes.
Many quizzes that I edit are on topics about which I have no previous knowledge.
Checking all the information given by quiz authors is simply not practical ... As far as I know, this is the case for all the editors. Obviously, if I find something that seems implausible or that doesn't make sense, I would query it, but all the editors depend heavily on quiz authors doing their own research properly. When checking correction notices I have found valid corrections on matters of factual accuracy.
Absolutely. That is where the value of correction notices comes in. All you players out there: if you think an answer is wrong, check a reputable source. If the source agrees with your findings, send the CN with your citation. Good quiz authors (and editors, in the authors' absence) respect these, and corrections help make this a better site.
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#441549 - Sat Feb 07 2009 07:47 AM
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Forum Champion
Registered: Tue Apr 17 2007
Posts: 5097
Loc: Ohio USA
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What, if anything, applies to a situation like this one? I recently played a new quiz and wanted to check a question I had gotten incorrect. I went to 'wiki', I realize not the most reliable source, but it is usually the one I go to first, purely out of convenience. Well, the quiz, with the exception of maybe 2/10 questions, looked as if it was taken verbatim from the wiki article.
While the source was cited in the interesting info, I felt the quiz was more or less thrown together and bordered on plagiarization. While I have no quizzes online myself, it would certainly be easy enough to write one, quite quickly, by this same method.
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#441551 - Sat Feb 07 2009 09:31 AM
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Forum Champion
Registered: Tue Apr 17 2007
Posts: 5097
Loc: Ohio USA
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Thank you, agony, and I believe I did in fact give it a "poor" rating (one of a very few I have ever given) because of that. I'll do what you suggested.
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#441553 - Fri Feb 20 2009 06:38 AM
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Forum Adept
Registered: Wed Mar 09 2005
Posts: 154
Loc: Taunton Somerset UK
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I usualy give Good. I have never given a very poor & very rarely a poor.
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