hxhd snq questions

[Chippiewill]

I get the impression that questions were made up on the spot to guide the focus of the quiz and to keep it tight. This is completely irresponsible and implements a clear bias in the quiz. For integrity the questions really ALL ought to be decided ahead of time and not spend more than two questions on a single topic as this biases anyone with a good knowledge in that topic. It doesn't matter if one person is getting all the questions, odds should be stacked equally. You should be rewarding knowledge, not luck on the final question.

[FlyingJesus]

I get the impression that questions were made up on the spot to guide the focus of the quiz and to keep it tight. This is completely irresponsible and implements a clear bias in the quiz. For integrity the questions really ALL ought to be decided ahead of time

Your impression is wrong:

As always, questions were sent to the managers and they didn't disagree with it. If you want to create a thread in HxHD for discussion of SNQ questions so Staff can actually give their opinions and be heard about it, then do so if they allow it.

and not spend more than two questions on a single topic as this biases anyone with a good knowledge in that topic. It doesn't matter if one person is getting all the questions, odds should be stacked equally. You should be rewarding knowledge, not luck on the final question.

Again, it's bad quizmaster etiquette but not bias. That's like saying you can't have a general knowledge quiz because someone might only know one small topic and it's unfair on them. Someone not knowing the answer to a question is not unfair bias.

[Chippiewill]

It's unfair bias to focus towards one topic which focuses towards one demographic. Your example to refute mine is a straw man as an equivalent example would be everyone except one person only knowing one small topic and only knowing that one small topic being the global norm.

[Red]

weirdest definition of 'exciting' i've ever heard.

Well it was neck and neck between a few of them. Surely it would of ben better to have questions that they would all know to make the winning close. If the last 4 questions are all going to be on twilight and only one of them have watched it then..

[FlyingJesus]

I've been in plenty of quizzes where only I or only a small number of people have known the answers to questions, to the point where people have even been like OMF WHAT EVEN IS THAT - is that unfair bias because it only catered to people with knowledge in a field that I'm interested in? The example works fine since the entire point is exclusion of knowledge, and I'm not sure if you're aware but that's kinda what quizzes are about

[Chippiewill]

I've been in plenty of quizzes where only I or only a small number of people have known the answers to questions, to the point where people have even been like OMF WHAT EVEN IS THAT - is that unfair bias because it only catered to people with knowledge in a field that I'm interested in?

Yes but the quiz won't continue to pander to the same group, otherwise I guess it would be biased.

[Hollie]

Well it was neck and neck between a few of them. Surely it would of ben better to have questions that they would all know to make the winning close. If the last 4 questions are all going to be on twilight and only one of them have watched it then..

How was she supposed to know it would've been neck and neck by that point? She had the questions planned so couldn't have just changed them on the spot with 4 questions to go.

[Red]

And also I disagree with the comment about people only complaining because its twilight. eg. I would still have the same opinion and told Andi no if he wanted to do it for the hunger games. I don't think 4 twilight questions should have been written in the first place. There is guidelines to keep it habbo(x)/gk and not too many on the same theme.

[Grig]

Is it me, or are some people here trying to argue against basic common sense :S?

[Jazz]

i see that some of you are being overally harsh on something that is a habbo game, yeah she had 4 questions on twilight, yeah thats a little bias but you dont need to rip her apart, make personal jokes and call her everything under the sun to get your point across. i couldnt really care less about snq, but i was in there yesterday and from what i saw it was a select number of people, as per usual in the hxhd giving staff crap, and nobody else from hxhd were asking them to stop? (isnt one of the rules of hxhd not to be rude to staff or other users, or something along those lines?

at the end of the day, she made a small error of judgement on her behalf.. does she really need 7/8 pages of grief? this is a feeedback thread, not a - oh yes lets pick on staff thread.