Please explain why the next question is ambigous?!

Which of these Fairy Tales is NOT written by H.C.Andersen?

The little Mermaid
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
The ugly Duckling
Sleeping Beauty


The question is valued as "Bad, incorrect question"!
According to evaluators your question is ambiguous.

s5jst, i honestly don't know why you got the ambigous evaluation.. it's a nice question and should have been accepted. maybe someone else has an idea.

@Svante64 : i guess it was because of Terminator - though sequels got their number so it shouldn't be. but a bit of spelling errors is obviously there in your question

Idézet: Svante64 - 2010.05.02. 18:30:28

I'm sure the issue was the grammar errors, though if I were evaluating it, I'd put that in the spelling category, rather than calling it ambiguous. "Haven't" is misspelled, but "movie" is singular, so it would be "hasn't" anyway, except that directing a movie is a one time thing, so it should be "wasn't" instead of "hasn't been".

This is yet another example of why the game would be better if evaluators had a space where they could explain their judgments.

Idézet: Phalanxii - 2010.05.01. 22:13:35

http://forum.doomlord.net/index.php/topic,53.0

Got a busy week at work ahead of me, but I'll try to get something coherent written up and posted there soon with my views.

Idézet: Phalanxii - 2010.05.01. 22:13:35

Doomlord forum -> Doomlord Game Forums -> Complaints -> The Quiz Evaluation Discussion/Debate

There is already an effort underway from the admins and the evaluators to "meet"" together and draw up a clear line on how the evaluation will work and the changes needed to make it better. In other words, all of you with valid complains have been taken seriously even without a petition.

Idézet: stekkos - 2010.05.04. 03:28:41

Some transparency in this process would be appreciated by surely all members who have voiced complaints thus far.

What team did Sidney Crosby play for when they won the NHL's Stanley Cup in 2009?
Pittsburgh Penguins
Detroit Red Wings
Philadelphia Flyers
New York Rangers

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


NOTHING IS WRONG WITH THIS QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not quite where Viridel is, but this one annoys me.

Which of the following is true of the Doppler effect?

As a wave source passes an observer, the apparent wavelength decreases.
As a wave source passes an observer, the apparent wavelength increases.
As a wave source passes an observer, the apparent frequency increases.
As a wave source passes an observer, the speed of the wave increases.

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


One of the explicit categories that are supposed to be accepted is "Elementary school general knowledge questions." My daughter, who is in elementary school, covered the Doppler effect. They obviously didn't cover the calculus behind it, but they went over what happens when a train passes you (the sound of its horn - which is the frequency of the wave - gets lower), and the fact that frequency and wavelength are inversely proportional. That's all you need to answer the question correctly.

Bad evaluator. No doughnut!

In which US state is the annual Burning Man Festival held?

Nevada.
California.
New Mexico.
Arizona.

The question is valued as "Bad, incorrect question"!
Spelling mistakes in question or answers.

I don't get what's spelled wrong in the question.

Idézet: deathmaka - 2010.05.04. 23:02:16

Nothing. Technically you don't need periods in the answers, but it's just another case of a Mod doing a crap job.

Get used to it.

Your question has been evaluated.
Evaluation of your last question is "Bad, incorrect question".
What do the Stripes on the American Flag represent?

the original founding fathers
the amount of money used to purchase the land
the original number of colonies (correct answer)
the number of british ships sank in boston harbor


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


This is a question I submitted, and, I might have agreed with the evaluation if not for the fact that I posted this question as a result of another question asking me to idenify the colors of another countries flag. If I am supposed to know the colors of another countries flag, why can't someone in another country know about my flag ??
I find the Evaluators to be very one-sided in their evaluations of the submitted questions. If this is a paid position, where do I sign up, I can sit around and reject questions for stupid reasons too, and I guarantee there wil never be a back log of questions waiting to be answered because I can reject most of them too. For the same reasons, lack of desire to verify questions.

You are correct on the fact that your question should have passed. It is not a matter of one sided evaluation, more like how each interperts the rules. For that reason a common effort is underway to create a specific guideline for all to stop this.

On another note, i have seen already questions passing asking what the stars in the flag mean and about the flags colors. Just to reassure you it is nothing to do with the fact you asked about the US flag, you maybe even got unlucky and a player evaluated your question without him being a proper evaluator. It can happen if too many questions are submitted at once and overflow the waiting line.

Idézet: deathmaka - 2010.05.04. 23:02:16

Nothing at all, unless the evaluator clarifies what he found wrong, it seems a proper question as far as spelling...

What is SPAM actually made of?

Pork
Beef
Chicken
Viagra

The question is valued as "Bad, incorrect question"!
According to evaluators the answer is an uninteresting lexical knowledge.


Two questions later, I get this gem:
How many neighbor country does Libya have?

Because this is the definition of an "interesting question."


And dude, THIS is awesome:
Which snooker player was simply known as 'The Grinder'?


Holy FUCK am I getting sick of this bullshit.

J. Edgar Hoover headed this branch of Law Enforcement?

ATF
CIA
FBI
NSA

bad question...ambiguous......is that so.


yet this one is acceptable....

What is the Federal Police Force of Canada called?

FBI
RCMP
DEA
ATF


16 good and 3 bad answers have arrived for this question.

can someone explain that to me?

A) In a normal formation (and including the Catcher), how many defensive players play in the Infield?
4
5
6
7

The question is valued as "Bad, incorrect question"!
According to evaluators your question is ambiguous.


B) What is the term for the player that is in the lineup to bat instead of the pitcher?
Designated Hitter
Pinch Hitter
Replacement Hitter
Switch Hitter

The question is valued as "Bad, incorrect question"!
According to evaluators your question is ambiguous.



Ok, A) isn't the easiest question in the quiz, but is FAR from "ambiguous". There is NO debate about Question B), and having this rejected is a farce.


I've been playing for two days, and these are the first two questions I've asked. If this is any indication of the crap I'm going to have to put up with, just tell me now so I can stop wasting any more time on this game. And I've already gone out and bought Stones, so that tells you how "irritated" I am right now).

Oh, and even better; I wrote these to finish the first quest. So now I can't even ask another question. I really want to hear from a moderator on this, because right now, none of my thoughts towards this game are very positive.

i wouldn't put periods after the answers.

Idézet: deathmaka - 2010.05.04. 23:02:16

Nemesis, your questions are not ambiguous bad they fall in the special knowleadge section. Granded the evaluation reason was wrong, but they wouldnt pass anyway. If you really want to post about baseball, try to stick to more general questions like, record holders, either teams or players (please input the year since it might change in the future), or famous world class events. In all, try to be a question that someone that knows nothing about baseball, or any sport, will find it at least justified as general trivia.

Idézet: stekkos - 2010.05.07. 10:29:53

I would actually disagree with both parts of that statement. The questions were ambiguous because they didn't specify what sport they referred to.

Idézet: stekkos - 2010.05.07. 10:29:53

I don't see how the examples you cite are more general than the rules of the game in question. To me, you have that exactly backwards.