Admitting mistakes not crying about them… (3 comments)
15 July 2009
Hello everyone! The inspiration for this blog post originated from the comments for our last post (thanks for the inspiration by the way :)). Those, who read and understood, most probably can predict the issue…Those who didn’t – all right, we are ready to reveal an issue that keeps our minds busy 25 hours per day…
Our joy about the sharp increase of QuizBoom.com popularity periodically turns into a small headache. Straight to the point – our database of the quiz questions appears to be too small (here it is important to distinguish between “small” and “too small”).
There are many loyal players that manage to play enormous amount of quizzes a day (it’s not that we don’t appreciate you guys – ‘cause we do! :)). Moreover, they have a quite good memory as well, which basically means that at some point of time it is not interesting to play anymore…and to compete.
Hopefully, you haven’t lost all of your excitement and that our democratic distribution of the winnings still brings you some pleasure (even the 869th player of the yesterday’s rating won!). But, yes, we know that the lack of questions still is a mistake and that we have to pay all of our attention to it – this is exactly what we are doing right now.
“Why you just don’t copy-paste the d**n questions in the system?” - I would really like to answer “Yeah, why not – let’s do it!” to this question. Unfortunately it takes much more than that. The first challenge – we have to create questions in each of the three languages…Secondly, the system of the questions creation involves several steps (“copy-paste” is really not the case :) ).
In brief - the system of the question writing looks like this: 1) writing; 2) reviewing; 3) reviewing once more; 4) importing into the system. We don’t want to ease the process in order to keep the quality as high as possible. Instead – we are constantly extending our battalion of question writers…
This entire story ends with a promise – in just a couple of days few thousands of new questions in each of the languages will be ready for the use :). Ok, I’ll give you another one – we will add new questions much faster further on. Hope for your understanding, and thanks for the praises and critics – it really keeps us going…Don’t hesitate and share anything that keeps your minds busy! See you!
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87. vieta ar 17184 punktiem ir plusos (no 100 uz 101), bet 91. vieta ar 17124 punktiem jau ir mīnusos (no 350 uz 349). Un ar švaku internetu 18 000 ir maksimālā robeža ko var sasniegt, atbildot visu pareizi un laiku tērējot uz kādiem 2 jaut., kuri jāmeklē internetā. Tātad ir praktiski neiespējami nebūt zaudējumos, ja nav labs internets un zināma lielākā daļa jautājumu…
19 July 2009
Dear Juris,
As the article and several comments have mentioned, we are currently working on this problem and it shall be solved any time soon. We are aware of it and we will fix it.
Your point also touches the problem of average bets. In order to maximize your potential win, you have to put larger bets on each individual game. The real situation is that players who do better place higher bets, therefore, their earnings are what they are.
Once the problem with questions will be solved, the distribution problem will be minimized as well.
Thanks for your feedback and we’ll be happy to hear more!
Alex
19 July 2009
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