That seems like a good set of criteria, Terry. My lowest rated questions have been the ones that were played the first few days before people were rewarded for rating them. Some, despite being played more than 50 times, weren't rated up or down by anyone. Any chance these might be recirculated to give them a better opportunity to be in future hourly/daily games?

I think they are still being recirculated, bottle_rocket. In the set I just played I had one of my own questions that was had already been played on the first day.

Mine seem to be going into the game more or less in the order I wrote them (there have been a couple exceptions, but that seems to be the general pattern). Are the two you're waiting on more recent on your list, Rowena? Maybe that's why they haven't been played yet

<< 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. >>

We go through them mostly in order, so I expect you'll get a bunch of them appearing at roughly the same time.

I'm actually really liking the New Question game myself.

It's a little like Christmas... you never know what interesting questions might come up.

They're about 2/3 of the way to the end of the ones that are left. They'll get there eventually lol, I just have no patience

<< They're about 2/3 of the way to the end of the ones that are left. They'll get there eventually lol, I just have no patience >>

We're getting questions in at an almost exact rate that they're being processed, so we still have a ton of questions in the queue. It looks like we can keep this game resetting every 3 hours and not have any problem of running out of questions.

1321 accepted but yet to appear in the new player game.
1200 played and analyzed.
180 in the queue to be checked.

" User Rating: Numbers above 0 indicate more people rated it "good" than "poor". A score of "0" represents equal good and poors. The higher the number, the greater the goodness."

Does that mean that a particularly poor question would have a negative rating, or is nada, zilch, nil, zero, duck egg, as low as it goes?

<< Does that mean that a particularly poor question would have a negative rating, or is nada, zilch, nil, zero, duck egg, as low as it goes? >>

We have negative rated questions. Simply means more "poors" than "goods".

Thanks for clearing that up, Terry.
I rate the questions based on originality AND being simple (in terms of the asking of the question - no mumbo jumbo).

Is the highest rating "1.0"?

I thought that would be the case - thanks Terry.

I'm pleased to say that all of mine so far have positive ratings

Oh well - there's the kiss of death probably!

What I'm wondering is if there is a question which is very poorly worded and needs major work, but is about an interesting subject matter, do we rate it as needing work on the first part of the rating form, but then say it is interesting in the second part? Or do we rate it low on both parts of the form, even though the subject matter is interesting? I am thinking specifically of an Alger Hiss question which was poorly worded, but in my opinion an interesting q nonetheless.

<< What I'm wondering is if there is a question which is very poorly worded and needs major work, but is about an interesting subject matter, do we rate it as needing work on the first part of the rating form, but then say it is interesting in the second part? Or do we rate it low on both parts of the form, even though the subject matter is interesting? I am thinking specifically of an Alger Hiss question which was poorly worded, but in my opinion an interesting q nonetheless. >>

Mark it as "minor edits required" or "major edits required".

All of those questions will be looked at more closely by our editors in the future.

"You mean like where he's referred to as "Hess" in the II?!"

No, no, that would be a minor problem. I saw much more serious problems than that.

If I choose not to rate a question, does that count against its overall rating? Sometimes if it's a topic I don't know about I don't want to judge whether it's good for the general pool or not, but I don't want to hurt the question either. (apologies if this has been asked/explained already)

<< If I choose not to rate a question, does that count against its overall rating? Sometimes if it's a topic I don't know about I don't want to judge whether it's good for the general pool or not, but I don't want to hurt the question either. (apologies if this has been asked/explained already) >>

No.

Okay, thank you!

I'm thoroughly enjoying this game and really looking at the questions for the first time. A thought occurs: is there a house style? For instance in the latest batch of questions some titles are in double quotation marks " and some in single ones '. As far as I know they are both equally correct, but I think they should be consistent.

Both " and ' are acceptable to cater for an international audience.

And Happy Birthday Row!

awww ta - I didn't realise about that cake "giving me away" - I am comforting myself with the fact that it doesn't show my age!

Terry, I have just played the game in its last 40 minutes (at approx. 7:20AM), I was appointed Set #9 and I noticed a glitch on Question #10 - there were no options to pick from. Not even a FITB 'thing' to use .

I did a print-screen which you can see in HERE. Hope it helps...

I doubt it was my computer or my browser. Everything else on FT (and everywhere) was working more than fine. I was wondering if it has something to do with the use of "[...]" - square brackets - in the question's text.

I am also curious if other players of Set #9 encountered the same thing.