The Answer problem has been solved for me. Thanks.

Now, if I could just use those Answers to get that pesky Achievement Badge...

I'm very surprised and pleased that I managed to get two questions into the current Top 20. I'm just standing on the shoulder of giants.

Happy Trivia!

Mousing over the answers on the top 20 question list is now working for IE7. Thanks Terry!

Just curious: Approximately how long does it take from when a question is accepted to when it gets into the game?

Funtrivia policy is that both single or double quotation marks are OK.

I've been marking for errors anywhere in the question - question, answer options, and interesting info.

Yippee! I finally got a question on the new Star Trek movie right, after I was able to go and see it at the weekend. St. Ives was deemed to small to have the movie when it opened nationally. Oh and I spotted an oxymoron in the film, when Kirk and Scotty beam aboard the Enterprise and Scotty is being flushed down the tube, there is a sign which says "Inert Reactant!" Terminator Salvation was just as silly. Human society totally destroyed and they perform a heart transplant on John Connor in a tent! Just one question, where are they going to find any anti-rejection drugs.

You are not the only one, Liz, my grammar and spelling usages are a hybrid of British and American as well I tend to do things like add the U into colour and favourite and the like, but use -ize endings instead of -ise.

Good, bad, easy or hard doesn't really matter, I'll play the game anyways. It is nice to get interesting questions even if I get them wrong and will mark them as good.

I am thoroughly enjoying the new questions, although I do find a rather high percentage obscure.

The only way I'll get 10 is by having 10 of my own questions in one quiz, and even then it's not a certainty as I have been known to get my own questions wrong lol

Is the 500 QQ badge still availible?
I remember reading that it was to be changed to 200.
Then I see that it doesn't appear on the new game page anymore.
But it's on the buzz as an availible badge to win.

What's the situation?

Are you there Rowena? lol

I love these new questions, am learning lots of new things. Some of the questions are really good! Am a bit fed up of baseball though! I am trying to do easier questions as some of mine have been obscure, due to their being UK related.

I don't suppose you happen to know tonight's lottery numbers do you?

I think the few US sports questions I've seen are better than average as "sports" questions go, but I don't like them in these quizzes, generally. I find it difficult to rate them better than average because of that.

I find I often forget to rate the questions and I go straight to the standings page. Then I remember, do a browser "back" and rate the questions. It seems when I do so, I don't get an indication of any bonus points. Is it too late at that point?

<< Is the 500 QQ badge still availible?
I remember reading that it was to be changed to 200.
Then I see that it doesn't appear on the new game page anymore. But it's on the buzz as an availible badge to win.
What's the situation? >>

No, there will be no new badges for "accepted questions". There will be at least one (and likely more over time) new badge for "X number of well rated questions".

That rewards what we want: well received questions. It also acknowledges that the question writing itself is really a sub-game... a challenge of its own.

I just have to decide what the criteria are for "good question quest question".

I'm thinking questions that meet either of the following:

a) 65% - 95% accuracy and 0.20 rating or higher, or,
b) any % accuracy but a rating of 0.40 or higher.

(a) rewards questions that we can use for sure in most hourly/daily games. (b) rewards difficult questions that everyone rated highly anyway.

I must say that I'm still struggling to decide how to rate questions in this game.

Could a thread be raised with accepted observations related to rating a question ?

Thanks

Personally I am rating them based on how interesting or original the question is. If I want to read the interesting info or having read it I learned something from it then it gets a good from me.

If I couldn't care less about the answer or what the interesting info has to say then it gets a poor.

Everything else gets average. Difficulty doesn't come into it at all.

Agree totally with you snowman - that's exactly the criteria I use!

The one thing I do like about this game is that we don't know until AFTER we have rated a question, who actually wrote it - which prevents any blatant favouritism prevalent on quiz ratings.

I use about the same criteria as Snowman. If I personally couldn't care less about the question, but can see that many other people might, I'll give it an average rather than a poor. Some unusual sporting feat, for example.

<< Personally I am rating them based on how interesting or original the question is. >>

That's precisely the intent.

We already know the difficulty based on people's scores. We want to know whether you find the question interesting/entertaining/worth your time or not.

Could it be that the "My questions: rated" page is not updating any more? In spite of over 20 unrated questions, nothing has changed on my list in the last 36 hours and I can't believe that none of my questions ever made it into the pool lately.