I am, and I'm being careful about my questions as well

So where is the spelling mistake?

"A Water Polo Net is how big?

3 feet High, 10 feet Wide (approx. 1 x 3 meters)
5 feet High, 5 feet Wide (approx. 2 x 2 meters)
1 foot High, 9 feet wide (approx. 0.5 x 3 meters)
7 feet high, 6 feet wide (approx 2.5 x 2 meters)

The question is valued as "Bad, incorrect question"!
According to evaluators only a special group of people might know the answer."


Ok, let me get this straight... There is one (*debatably* two) legitimate answer to the above question... You don't need to KNOW the answer - you need to be able to think.

Yet "Who invented the noiseless match" and all those "where was this person born" questions are NOT "only a special group of people might know the answer."???

You guys have enough issues getting the questions to have RIGHT answers... Don't give me this crap about being too specific when your database is full of worse examples that obviously got approved.

I have to agree with Viridel. Although I hate the sports questions, his water polo question I can make a reasonable guess at the answer. Most of the sports and movie questions I have no idea.

(My guess is the first answer)

Which famous NBA star, known as "Mozart of basketball", died in a car accident on June 7th, 1993?

Wilt Chamberlain
Julius Erving
Drazen Petrovic
Mugsy Bogues

The question is valued as "Bad, incorrect question"!
This question is already part of the database.

I guarantee this question is NOT in the database. please, prove me wrong. thank you

Ok, this is getting to be horsesh!t... ANOTHER rejection?!?

What goaltender holds the NHL record for Career Wins?
Dominik Hasek
Vladislav Tretiak
Patrick Roy
Martin Brodeur

The question is valued as "Bad, incorrect question"!
According to evaluators only a special group of people might know the answer.


Approved in the database - Who is the lead singer of Disturbed?
Not Allowed in the database - CAREER LEADER in a MAJOR LEAGUE SPORT

You will allow the career scoring leader in the NBA, but not career wins leader in the NHL (which is extremely topical, since the change happened this season)!!! HYPOCRITICAL BULLSH!T!!!

I am one more rejected question away from quitting this game for good.

I want to hear from a Game Moderator on this one.

Quote: ChaoticGemini - 2009.08.30. 20:42:13

And yes, Chaotic is right.

Another question of mine rejected for alleged spelling errors! Who is checking the spelling on these? I fail to see the errors.

Here's the latest alleged spelling error reject:

What was the first country to give all women an unrestricted right to vote?
Romania
Norway
Canada
New Zealand

Ok... Who votes for a more internationally oriented review board? Good stuff is getting knocked out for lousy / incorrect reasons, while questions with spelling and grammatical or WRONG answers are abundant.

It's obvious the coders don't have time to go thru these properly, so let's put the reviews in the hands of some of the stronger players!

Thoughts?

can't see why you are so upset - you didn't lose the chance of rewriting the question with this evaluation.. anyway, i can't see any spelling errors in it either, try putting it up again.

guess it's the capitals after the numbers.


Quote: ChaoticGemini - 2009.08.30. 09:43:26

i'm not a game moderator just have too much of nose. but. you're talking about major league sport - where? and what about those countries which haven't even seen ice?


Quote: Viridel - 2009.08.30. 23:11:06

Quote: Valkyrie - 2009.08.30. 22:28:56

what about my question?

Quote: Pogaxa - 2009.08.31. 21:28:54

The NHL has players from across North America and Europe, as well as varying numbers in non-"traditional" markets.

I will say, without a shadow of a doubt, that more people know what the NHL is than read Dragonlance, know who Derrick is (yet a Star Trek question gets kicked, this still slays me), can name one song by Disturbed, or who even knew there was a "noiseless match".


Like I said, there needs to be an International Evaluation Team... Not just coders from Hungary (who obviously know the nickname if the 33-Game unbeaten Hungarian soccer team from a 1/2 century ago, but not a current event in the NHL from last year).

The Quiz thing could have been one of the best parts of any online game... But it's being completely f___d up by inaccuracies and double standards.

As Miklos wrote, quiz evaluation is a bit subjective. However, when youare defending your questions here is way more subjective. Each one of you is perfectly confidwnt, that his/her question was absolutly correct, and the evaluation was false. Please try to look a the picture from above. What is evident for you, might be a common knowledge of your culture, but also can be very specific in others. Major Legue games for example are part of the common knowledge in US but, it isn't in Europe, not mentioning Asia or Africa.

Instead of complaining on a single question, it would be much wiser to learn what kind of questions are accepted. There are numerous questions in this area (history, geography, biology, fanous scientists or buildings for example) which will evalated as good questions.

One more thing: if you (not reffering just to Viridiel) think your question is excellent, does not mean, that you won't find it quoted in the Quiz error tomorrow after accepted!

I don't think they are confident that their questions are absolutely correct, only that they are when compared with other questions that got allowed, that's the difference

Well, if I have to go to Wiki to find out who invented the stupid noiseless match, someone else can go to Wiki to find out who holds an NHL record.

Thanks for the idea. The question was accepted when I got rid of the capital letters in the answers. I thought I should post this in case anyone else was having a similar issue.

Okay, I will admit spelling is my worst subject, but because of that, I check and double check all my spelling. Anyone have a clue how to get this question by the insane Spelling mistakes in question or answers evaluation I get.

The question:

Where are doldrums located?
in deserts
above the 45th parallel
in space
around the equator

Quote: Viridel - 2009.08.30. 23:11:06

Which F1 team did not participate in the 2008 season?
Sauber-Petronas
Force India
Toro Rosso
BMW Sauber

Ok, so this question is not "only a special group of people might know the answer", but an NHL question with a readily researchable answer is? Stop the hypocrisy!!!