Elapsed time

[Quizmonster]

Is it possible for a time lapse to be built into the presentation of questions? No 'normal' person needs the answers to 5, 10, 20 questions at the same time; the only people who do are the ones who want answers to quiz-questions without the actual hassle of finding them for themselves. (Why they even enter quizzes in these circumstances defeats me!)

 

So, how about, say, a six-hour time-period during which the same questioner may not present another question? This would get rid of these endless streams of - often the very same -  questions that throw everything else off the bottom of a page. If nothing else, they might learn to put all their questions into one 'compendium' slot.

[New Forester]

I think this is a good idea, but the time lapse need not be nearly so long -- allow perhaps two, then none for half an hour?

Of course, it needs to apply only to new questions, not answers.

[thewillow]

A good idea but six hours seems excessive. Surely half an hour would do?

[NoGood Boyo]

Good idea, Quizmonster. I'll support New Forester's proposal.

[Hgrove]

Yes, I support New Forester's version of this suggestion.

[iwantthatone]

The downside to this suggestion is that it might reduce the 'pinky and perky minor hit in 1993..', 'tasty tasty very very tasty', 'what product makes you lovlier each day', 'name for a red coat worn by fox hunters', 'shaking stevens', 'pale pink and green ties'  sort of questions........

 

DO IT!!

NOW!!

Please...? If not just for for my, and probably a few other people's sanity out there.....

 

[SKCOLL]

Why don't you just report it in the other category and the AB Ed will pick it up and run them together like he has before?

 

Besides, why should people with two questions perfectly reasonable be time barred?

[Quizmonster]

Dear Skcoll...because it's not so much a case of reporting 'it' as a case of reporting a multitude of 'its'. Also, someone with a couple of 'reasonable' questions would surely not be over-distressed to wait a little for his/her second answer. I've never yet, in years of usage, seen an AnswerBank question which was a matter of life and death!

[AB Editor]

Very interesting: this suggestion has been made here as well (not to steal your well-earned round of applause, Quizmonster.) The suggestion was that the time limit be considerably shorter than this: perhaps no more than two questions in 10 minutes? (Designed specifically for the newbie who tries to post all 10 'pink' questions separately, for example.)

SKCOLL: Much as I love spending my days stitching together those strings of questions...

[New Forester]

Strikes me that a very long delay would not work anyway, because the abuser (as opposed of course to the genuine AB user...) would just log on again under a different ID.