DEVELOPER DIARY: Trivia!

Alrighty guys - we just launched a our new Trivia feature over the weekend (last friday really)! I'm really excited about it - and judging by how many of you guys are already participating in the game - I think its gonna be a really fun feature :)

Alrighty guys - we just launched a our new Trivia feature over the weekend (last friday really)! I'm really excited about it - and judging by how many of you guys are already participating in the game - I think its gonna be a really fun feature :)

I've messed around with it so far and it's been pretty awesome...Some of the user-submitted questions are oddly worded though; some are extremely vague too.

nice, gonna go check it out now. 

This is a really awesome feature. It's a great thing to play around with when I'm bored. I'm glad to hear about that question ranking stuff, because I've been getting a lot of really vague questions, such as "What city is Rita from?" and "Who is the final boss?" with no mention of the game it's about or anything.

Yeah, fun little game, but some questions are entirely vague.

""I've been getting a lot of really vague questions, such as "What city is Rita from?" and "Who is the final boss?" with no mention of the game it's about or anything."

Thats just about the only problem I have had with it, other than that it's great!"

It was pretty neat to stumble across it on Friday. I've had a lot of fun with it so far, and being able to add your own questions is a really neat feature. You guys don't fail to impress!

The leaderboard / personal stats inclusion is what is going to have people addicted. It is really awesome to see how creative and difficult some of these questions are. You also get a sense as to what types of games specific users enjoy. Aside from the occasional vagueness previously mentioned, I have been enjoying it a lot.

Sounds awesome!

dudes - sorry, here's the link: http://www.giantbomb.com/trivia/

Personally, I'd say it should go in the main nav. There's plenty of space for it, and it's a feature that should be pimped as much as possible.

Can I make a suggestion?
Each trivia question is tied to a specific wiki page right? Well, it seems like it would be entirely possible to make each trivia question show us which game (or franchise, or whatever) the question relates to. This would help questions that are vague (like "what is the Final Boss") seem completely valid.
Either that, or add a blurb to the "add a new question" form to ask potential question writers to give their questions context.

Of all suggestions I should be making (if you were aware of what happened in Trivia, but this isn't the point), I would like to make a suggestion, if it has not been mentioned already.

Giving an Optional Summary of the Answer

I'm a cynical bastard. And I can see this feature being totally raped by dudes who write stupidly abstract complicated questions, or questions with the wrong answers. Never underestimate the predictable stupidity of the internet. Is there ANY form of moderation taking place here?

What is the "Games Behind" ranking system? I googled it but it seemed a little complicated

I think that the ability to edit and/or delete questions you've submitted is needed. Sometimes you make a typo and you don't notice until later.

Sounds great.

I approve of this feature.

""I've been getting a lot of really vague questions, such as "What city is Rita from?" and "Who is the final boss?" with no mention of the game it's about or anything."

Thats just about the only problem I have had with it, other than that it's great!"

Damn, I hate this feature!!! I was doing really well, I was nearly at 70% correct, but now I keep getting really specific questions about games I've never played, and now I'm struggling to keep it above 50%. Damn all of you adding those - I'm looking at you MattBodega, why the hell are you so obsessed with that damn matrix game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Can I make a suggestion?
Each trivia question is tied to a specific wiki page right? Well, it seems like it would be entirely possible to make each trivia question show us which game (or franchise, or whatever) the question relates to. This would help questions that are vague (like "what is the Final Boss") seem completely valid.
Either that, or add a blurb to the "add a new question" form to ask potential question writers to give their questions context."

"Bass said:

"Can I make a suggestion?
Each trivia question is tied to a specific wiki page right? Well, it seems like it would be entirely possible to make each trivia question show us which game (or franchise, or whatever) the question relates to. This would help questions that are vague (like "what is the Final Boss") seem completely valid.
Either that, or add a blurb to the "add a new question" form to ask potential question writers to give their questions context."

The reason this isn't done is that it often gives away the answer. The better solution is to just allow peeps to vote down poorly written questions.  That feature is coming soon."

"snide said:

"Bass said:

"Can I make a suggestion?
Each trivia question is tied to a specific wiki page right? Well, it seems like it would be entirely possible to make each trivia question show us which game (or franchise, or whatever) the question relates to. This would help questions that are vague (like "what is the Final Boss") seem completely valid.
Either that, or add a blurb to the "add a new question" form to ask potential question writers to give their questions context."

The reason this isn't done is that it often gives away the answer. The better solution is to just allow peeps to vote down poorly written questions.  That feature is coming soon."

If you put that in, what's to stop people from voting down a question that they found hard? Like how people abuse the forum rating tool by rating down posts that they disagree with? I agree something needs to be done to get rid of bad questions, but that system could lead to abuse."

Any system that involves user submission can lead to abuse. We'll do the best we can to avoid gaming/abuse and watch the system closely over the first week.

Hey Coonce/GB. Really like the trivia, and so does a lot of other users it seems. Without a doubt my favourite feature on the site - Great idea!

As for suggestions :

I'm not very fond of the ability to "jump in questions" by clicking on em' in peoples profile feeds. This also gives users the ability to answer their own questions. Might consider ordering the question, as you said Coonce, from easiest to most difficult... or even randomly to avoid abuse.

A thing that also needs a fix is questions tied to a specific game. There's some simple questions like "who's the boss in this game" that's kinda hard to answer since there's no indication of what game they're referring to (besides checking out their trivia page) - a picture in the corner of the question box or something definitely wouldn't hurt.

Some sort of edit tool or moderation (no idea if this is going on already) so people have a chance to correct their mistakes... There's a lot of spelling mistakes out there - the question ranking might take care of this.

And yeah, this should definitely go in the main nav.

Anyways, most of this had probably already been said - just what I had on my mind. Looking forward to see what you guys can come up with for this.

 

Wasn't expecting this...

Staff and mods can delete trivia questions, right? Can one of you delete my question "Which of these is not a real pokemon?", because I accidentally selected a wrong answer as the right answer.

EDIT: Turns out I'm even more of an idiot than I thought, I did select the right answer, so ignore this post.

"Staff and mods can delete trivia questions, right? Can one of you delete my question "Which of these is not a real pokemon?", because I accidentally selected a wrong answer as the right answer."