Latin American History

[davehood]

When was the Panama Canal completed?

[Quizmonster]

It was opened to traffic on August 15th , 1914.

[Moog]

Well done davehood, you've managed to push all the interesting questions off the 20 most recent questions list with your banal quiz b*****ks... go and buy an encyclopaedia or better still learn to do your own searchs on the internet!

[Quizmonster]

I don't agree with Moog. Firstly, we none of us know anything about Davehood...he could easily be an eleven year-old with a fascination for American history who has just discovered the joys of using websites to further his knowledge. (I'm not saying he is, but he could be.) Secondly, he may not have or be able to afford an encyclop�dia, nor may he know how to use search-engines. It could well be that the supposedly 'interesting' questions pushed out might never have appeared either if the people who asked them had had knowledge of encyclop�dias and search-engines.Thirdly, it is not for any one of us answerers to decide what's 'interesting' and what isn't. If Moog was that interested in the nine questions pushed off the page, he/she'd presumably remember what they were about. They should, therefore, be easily recalled by using the search facility on this site. Sorry, but it seems to me that the complaint is based on a set of utterly unfounded assumptions and unjustified restrictions. If you've got questions, Dave, ask 'em! That's what the site's for.

[Obo]

While I agree with some of what you say Quizmonster, I personally think that the Answerbank should add a clause to it's conditions of use (or make it clear elsewhere) that people who want to ask multiple "quiz" they should ask them in one question rather than fill a whole category with them, or alternatively add a quiz category for such questions, because until the susten for finding old questions is improved it is a tad irritating when questions are bumped off the recent 20 list in the space of a few minutes rather than a couple of days, I feel that people generally only go though the last 20 questions and so by being bumped off this list questions may not receive a satifactory or full answer.