James_Bond4334
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I know the trivia has had its way of being run for years, but if you do intend to make changes in the future, i have some ideas to consider.
Obviously, the test is on trivia knowledge, but equally the same how fast you can type and read the question.
My suggestions are one of three things:
One, making spelling a more enforceable rule would slow people down when answering perhaps. I personally don't advise this suggestion, it's just a possibility.
However I do believe this is a good idea. Punish incorrect answers with minus a point. Granted, in the beginning, the winner might be the lowest negative number, or you could just keep 0 a minimum. But by making a consequence to a wrong answer will stop obnoxious guessing and only leave those who are certain of the answer. This can be ignored for Mimi's Family Feud type questions. But even the quickest of us will think twice first before putting an answer out there and read the question more carefully knowing we could be losing our well earned points.
This may also be a reasonable solution: This would be based on Administrator's opinion, but if a lot of people answer quickly at once, first person to answer can be awarded more points and still reward those afterwards with 1 point or some form of scale. If the administrator believes an answer was typed too late after the correct answer was first posted, they would not reward that person due to suspicion of cheating.
In conclusion to this, I believe something should be adjusted in some way because even though we still all have fun, it's become a game where we play for fun, knowing there's never a hope to win when people type so much faster even if you know the answer.
Obviously, the test is on trivia knowledge, but equally the same how fast you can type and read the question.
My suggestions are one of three things:
One, making spelling a more enforceable rule would slow people down when answering perhaps. I personally don't advise this suggestion, it's just a possibility.
However I do believe this is a good idea. Punish incorrect answers with minus a point. Granted, in the beginning, the winner might be the lowest negative number, or you could just keep 0 a minimum. But by making a consequence to a wrong answer will stop obnoxious guessing and only leave those who are certain of the answer. This can be ignored for Mimi's Family Feud type questions. But even the quickest of us will think twice first before putting an answer out there and read the question more carefully knowing we could be losing our well earned points.
This may also be a reasonable solution: This would be based on Administrator's opinion, but if a lot of people answer quickly at once, first person to answer can be awarded more points and still reward those afterwards with 1 point or some form of scale. If the administrator believes an answer was typed too late after the correct answer was first posted, they would not reward that person due to suspicion of cheating.
In conclusion to this, I believe something should be adjusted in some way because even though we still all have fun, it's become a game where we play for fun, knowing there's never a hope to win when people type so much faster even if you know the answer.
