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I know I'm going to upset some people but has anyone else noticed that there are a lot of requests for answers for new quizzes. The WIN TER and PROS and CONS quizzes don't close until the middle of March. I thought it was general practice not to ask for help (clues) until a week or two before closing date - or am I just being grouchy? !!
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General practice? What's that? And no, you aren't being grouchy.
The following seems to be the sensible approach for a Q&A website . . .
In Quizzes and Puzzles we occasionally have users decrying the posting of questions from a Quiz which has not been out very long or where the setter has asked those entering not to use site such as this . . . however, we will not remove the question. This is a Q&A site after all. It is suggested that those wishing not to know the answer simply do not read the question.
Thanks for your time. Spare Ed
12:46 Thu 04th Feb 2010
The following seems to be the sensible approach for a Q&A website . . .
In Quizzes and Puzzles we occasionally have users decrying the posting of questions from a Quiz which has not been out very long or where the setter has asked those entering not to use site such as this . . . however, we will not remove the question. This is a Q&A site after all. It is suggested that those wishing not to know the answer simply do not read the question.
Thanks for your time. Spare Ed
12:46 Thu 04th Feb 2010
I cannot understand the absolutely desperate need to finish a quiz within days of it being received.
Perhaps the potential answerers should ask theselves why the quiz name is not mentioned in the frst place - perhaps the askers are hoping that no-one will notice.
chorley9's suggestion that the quiz name and closing date should always be mentioned is a very good one but getting the "serial askers" to abide by this would be impossible.
Perhaps the potential answerers should ask theselves why the quiz name is not mentioned in the frst place - perhaps the askers are hoping that no-one will notice.
chorley9's suggestion that the quiz name and closing date should always be mentioned is a very good one but getting the "serial askers" to abide by this would be impossible.
I love doing quizzes, in fact I am obsessed. I usually have a few all going at the same time (Yes sometimes it is difficult to keep them apart). I only ask for answers when I am desperate. However, I must say this roopower, if I could not ask for answers occasionally I would not buy the quizzes and so the charities would suffer - maybe only by a small amount but I expect there are others like me, which would make it a larger amount. Also, quite often I buy via email and so do not pay until I return the answered quiz, so again if I could not answer the questions it would not be returned. Incidentally, I have never won anything so I do not gain by this, it is just my way of amusing myself. I would think I have never sent one which was completely right, but what does that matter, I had fun doing it and fun coming on to AB to help me.
It is indeed the never ending discussion, a resolution I feel will never be found to suit everyone.
I agree that a clear honest heading with the actual quiz title and preferably the closing date would allow people to make their own minds up.
On a personal level - I do approx 20+ quizzes a month so do not open threads which are obviously ones I have (unless I have completed it), I have not asked a quiz question for a few years now and will gladly send in with a guess or a blank space.
I agree that a clear honest heading with the actual quiz title and preferably the closing date would allow people to make their own minds up.
On a personal level - I do approx 20+ quizzes a month so do not open threads which are obviously ones I have (unless I have completed it), I have not asked a quiz question for a few years now and will gladly send in with a guess or a blank space.
Still quoting the Ed from 2010 when I said recently that the Ed had removed questions asked on a quiz that said no asking. We really need that update of their opinion but agree if they gave it the proper title eg not local or the subject rather than the name and the closing date then maybe those who just like to answer and not actually ever buy a quiz might at least wait till nearer the closing date.
I agree wholeheartedly with Starbuckone. If you do not want to see the answer don't open it up. I will not now enter a quiz where a quiz setter orders us not to ask for clues or answers. It is only the same as asking your friends for help. I don't enter quizzes if I can't answer all the answers. Sometimes it is also to put me out of my own agony that I ask for an answer and we won't get rich winning a quiz, let's face it. £10.00 to £50.00 is the range of prizes and you can't retire from work on that. It is more the enjoyment of trying to find the answers and that includes asking for answers.
I am astounded that people dont pay and enter if they dont get all the answers surely even if you only do half you have had the enjoyment so the charity deserves the money. People are starting to offer quizzes as pay on entry and if they feel people wont actually pay every time that will stop and with the price of postage it is good to be able to get quizzes like this
With respect,margaretrae.I don't see it as an order from the setter-it's usually a request and I think that request should be respected.Surely a quizzer can wait until a few weeks before the closing date to ask for help.I can see the problem from both sides but just can't understand why some people ask for help just days after receiving the quiz.Saying that I think the closing date is sometimes too far ahead.
