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September 29, 2009 02:41 PM
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I think trivia questions are fine, but that's just my opinion. I believe there's a market for trivia.
People love trivia for many reasons. I suppose we could get all scientific and hearken back to our oral history roots for not losing the story of our tribe, or some such egg headed explanation, but let's not. The current craze may have been popularized many years ago by the popular board game Trivial Pursuit, but let's not forget "Jeopardy", and Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDoZ-jq8Vok
An interesting phenomenon of late is "fake trivia", which is made up and delivered authoritatively, presumably to have a good laugh at the naive folk who believe it. John Hodgeman has written two such books, unless I've ironically been taken in by a hoax and the books do not actually exist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5rHztiXfAQ
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/John-Hodgman-Gives-More-Information.html#
When determining how large a tip to leave, you might take into consideration how many unrelated follow up questions you are going to and and how much additional time and effort your follow up questions are going to take! HA Just joking, ask as many follow ups as you want. If I am able, I will attempt to answer them.
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You should not ask a trivia question for which you know or could look up the answer.
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30 trivia questions a day would be incredibly annoying especially if the questions were fired out in rapid succession. And the quality of answers in these cases will be disappointing. In a situation such as this there would be no real added value to mahalo. If this were the situation like this I'd probably say you are better off finding an irc channel and running a trivia bot or if you feel that irc is obsolete then do it on twitter
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http://bradkellett.com/p/twitter-trivia-bot/
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/trivia-bot.aspx trivia bot
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and even though some are easy to answer, some aren't and do take research and you only reward the full, complete and correct answers. So it is just putting more information onto Mahalo, which is the whole point?
Also the same people aren't the ones answering ALL the trivia questions as some just don't interest or are too difficult for people that don't know about the fields the questions are about.
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Mahalo is adding a tip to all questions that don't offer a tip.
Is asking a trivia question, ok?
Should less money to offered for a trivia question?
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| September 29, 2009 03:12 PM |
People love trivia for many reasons. I suppose we could get all scientific and hearken back to our oral history roots for not losing the story of our tribe, or some such egg headed explanation, but let's not. The current craze may have been popularized many years ago by the popular board game Trivial Pursuit, but let's not forget "Jeopardy", and Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDoZ-jq8Vok
An interesting phenomenon of late is "fake trivia", which is made up and delivered authoritatively, presumably to have a good laugh at the naive folk who believe it. John Hodgeman has written two such books, unless I've ironically been taken in by a hoax and the books do not actually exist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5rHztiXfAQ
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/John-Hodgman-Gives-More-Information.html#
When determining how large a tip to leave, you might take into consideration how many unrelated follow up questions you are going to and and how much additional time and effort your follow up questions are going to take! HA Just joking, ask as many follow ups as you want. If I am able, I will attempt to answer them.
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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/John-Hodgman-Gives-More-Informat...
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September 29, 2009 05:27 PM
No. You should only ask questions for which you need an answer or about which you wish to begin a discussion. You should not ask a trivia question for which you know or could look up the answer.
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September 29, 2009 07:34 PM
You only want answers that you agree with? You asked if it is ok, and I said no. The amount of tip does not apply in the case of my answer.
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September 29, 2009 09:42 PM
If your rule was in enforce, only questions which needed an answer would be asked. Terrible.
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September 30, 2009 01:53 AM
I realized your answers are design to add no value and consume lots of valuable time.
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September 30, 2009 01:57 AM
Oddly enough, that's what I think of your questions.
In this case you asked specifically whether trivia questions were ok; but, that was not what you wanted to know, or you would be interested in comparing the number and answers of people who were pro and con.
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In this case you asked specifically whether trivia questions were ok; but, that was not what you wanted to know, or you would be interested in comparing the number and answers of people who were pro and con.
September 29, 2009 07:54 PM
A trivia question is fine... it can actually start an interesting thread and encourage some thought by various members. In this situation Mahalo can actually add some value. Trivial questions can have excellent answers. 30 trivia questions a day would be incredibly annoying especially if the questions were fired out in rapid succession. And the quality of answers in these cases will be disappointing. In a situation such as this there would be no real added value to mahalo. If this were the situation like this I'd probably say you are better off finding an irc channel and running a trivia bot or if you feel that irc is obsolete then do it on twitter
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http://bradkellett.com/p/twitter-trivia-bot/
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/trivia-bot.aspx trivia bot
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September 29, 2009 10:42 PM
Yes, someplace else would be great!
You can't get any discussion when questions of any kind are poured in.
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You can't get any discussion when questions of any kind are poured in.
September 30, 2009 12:10 AM
Think! Your suggestion is a bad idea. You'll get no response without money. Mahalo has money, money is required to have trivia answered.
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September 30, 2009 12:12 AM
If you don't like the rapid fire questions then complain to Mahalo. The system allows for rapid fire on a first come first serve basis.
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September 30, 2009 04:47 AM
@davepamn.
I disagree with the statement that says ' You'll get no response without money'
Both my irc example and my twitter example show people asking a lot of trivia questions who get answers with zero money as a reward for answers. The reason why people answer them is they find them enjoyable. That is reward in itself.
The most famous trivia game in the world, Trivial Pursuit is another example of this. Actually seeing as the game itself must be purchased you have a situation where people actually pay for the privileged of answering questions.
As to complaining about 'rapid fire' questions being allowable by the system. I agree. There is nothing stopping a user doing it. There is also nothing in the system that stops a user answering questions badly, inarticulately or
inaccurately. In these cases I wouldn't complain to Mahalo either. I'd comment on their answer with helpful ways that they could improve their answer. In this case you've asked a question about trivia questions. So its appropriate that I answer, Saying both why I like trivia questions and also mentioning why they may be a problem.
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I disagree with the statement that says ' You'll get no response without money'
Both my irc example and my twitter example show people asking a lot of trivia questions who get answers with zero money as a reward for answers. The reason why people answer them is they find them enjoyable. That is reward in itself.
The most famous trivia game in the world, Trivial Pursuit is another example of this. Actually seeing as the game itself must be purchased you have a situation where people actually pay for the privileged of answering questions.
As to complaining about 'rapid fire' questions being allowable by the system. I agree. There is nothing stopping a user doing it. There is also nothing in the system that stops a user answering questions badly, inarticulately or
inaccurately. In these cases I wouldn't complain to Mahalo either. I'd comment on their answer with helpful ways that they could improve their answer. In this case you've asked a question about trivia questions. So its appropriate that I answer, Saying both why I like trivia questions and also mentioning why they may be a problem.
September 30, 2009 03:05 PM
One way to reduce rapid fire questions, is to put a system time delay for entry to the question queue. Load balancing between users could control when the questions surface.
I think Mahalo's system is designed to support large amounts of questions from a single user. Perhaps, if the questions received a large number of "not helpful" comments then the quota to submit should decrease.
Fortunely, for me, my questions earn a high "Helpful" percentage.
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I think Mahalo's system is designed to support large amounts of questions from a single user. Perhaps, if the questions received a large number of "not helpful" comments then the quota to submit should decrease.
Fortunely, for me, my questions earn a high "Helpful" percentage.
September 30, 2009 05:55 PM
Well they could try setting restrictions on questions, maybe limiting them to 4 per hour, or limiting questions to 10 per day. But I really think that self control by people is the best solution.
As to your questions being voted helpful... The evidence doesn't back that up at all. Of the last 20 questions you asked all of them are at MS0.37. They haven't recieved a single helpful vote.
To be fair nobody has voted them unhelpful either, but its rare for any question on Mahalo to be voted unhelpful. Whilst many people vote for interesting questions. Even though it costs money to vote for interesting questions and nothing to mark them as uninteresting
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As to your questions being voted helpful... The evidence doesn't back that up at all. Of the last 20 questions you asked all of them are at MS0.37. They haven't recieved a single helpful vote.
To be fair nobody has voted them unhelpful either, but its rare for any question on Mahalo to be voted unhelpful. Whilst many people vote for interesting questions. Even though it costs money to vote for interesting questions and nothing to mark them as uninteresting
September 29, 2009 08:40 PM
I like your trivia questions :) and even though some are easy to answer, some aren't and do take research and you only reward the full, complete and correct answers. So it is just putting more information onto Mahalo, which is the whole point?
Also the same people aren't the ones answering ALL the trivia questions as some just don't interest or are too difficult for people that don't know about the fields the questions are about.
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September 30, 2009 12:11 AM
Cool. Mahalo experts continue to provide great answers. Eventually, Mahalo will realize the quality is outstanding.
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The two books exist, but it is not clear whether they consist of false trivia. They are some sort of modern humor, it seems, in the form of a two volume almanac of fictional and incorrect information.
Groucho Marx is something of a hero of mine, Thankfully in these days of the internet its now possible to hear his radio version of 'You Bet your life'
I haven't read Hodgeman's books, YET. I've heard him being interviewed about them and they sound fantastic.