Well, there was my quiz that took over a year, but it got a thumb, so... ;-)

I've had quizzes simmer for so long that the pan burnt dry ~~

While on the subject of the ratings system---

Does it make any difference whether the quiz is rated by a few dozen people vs hundreds or thousands? Obviously there needs to be enough ratings for the variability to settle down, but all else being equal should a quiz played by many more people necessarily rate higher than a niche quiz?

I've been curious for a while--not after the algorithm or anything, just a general idea.

I think not. If you look at the top 25 list, many of them are niche quizzes. So far as I know there is no weighting for numbers of players - a rating is a rating (except for some protection built in for quizzes which are part of a challenge, as that has been shown to be bad for ratings - the Bus Ride quizzes, for example)

The number of plays is a statistic that is kept, and you can find the quizzes with the most plays. This tends to mean that they are on popular topics, not necessarily that they are good quizzes. The really outstanding quizzes can be played by thousands, not just those with an appreciation for the niche subject, and still have lots of excellent ratings, but the rankings are based on percentages, rather than absolute numbers, of players giving each of the five possible ratings.

Cool; thanks for the explanation agony & looney tunes.

How I see the rank. I write a quiz a week ago and I don't see the rank. Thanks.

It's on the RH side of the quiz introduction page, underneath the three red arrows.

Joe, it usually takes about three weeks for the ranking to kick in. Your quiz went online on the 10th, so it will probably get ranked next Sunday night, FT time.

Thanks ozz.

In addition to the delay, there's another criterium. A quiz' ranking is only shown after at least 20 people have given their ratings.

And it stays marked as *NEW* until it gets 20 ratings. There are quizzes that were placed online more than a year ago that still have that tag.

It's rated by 58 players. Thanks.

Joe, it's now rated by a sufficient number of players, but as ozzz2002 stated above, you'll have to wait three weeks for a ranking to show, which would ideally be December 3, as rankings update on Mondays FT time.

Hi dave and ozz thanks. How I win the sunglass? I want for a summer day.

sorry i see, the quiz must rated in the top 20%. The sunglass was remove if the quiz dropped the 20% mark?

Yes. Sunglasses come and go on quizzes if they do not meet the top 20% of quizzes (which is roughly the top 22,000).

How I see the complete rating.

http://www.funtrivia.com/quizlist2.cfm?myquizzes=1&rank=yes

In user feedback, this it's the information, but don't see the average, poor and very poor ratings.

Ratings: 67
Good & Excellents: 54 (81%)
Exc: 16 (24%), Good: 38 (57%)

No one does.

I have a quiz that has now been rated 20 times (and has been online for over 6 months) but it isn't ranked? Is this an automated thing or does an admin have to do something?

If it just got its twentieth, new ratings are calculated on Monday mornings.

It will only be ranked once the rerank is done which occurs every Monday.

Thanks for the answer, the last play was on Monday 14th possibly after the last rerank then.

The last rerank would have been at midnight(ish) Sunday 13/Monday 14. So, look forward to the ranks on Monday.

I am not sure if this is the correct place, but here goes.

I just played a quiz that I enjoyed so went to look at the writer's other efforts. They had so many yellow "New" flashes, but I found some of them were authored in 2011.

The flashes have gone from most quizzes on my page so I think this must be a glitch.