I'll wait for your entry if you what then I'll revel the answers and scores.tractakid wrote:Ah oops. must get on with this... I got half way through the other day then went to bed.
Rare Entries Quiz VIII: London
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Looking at my submitted answers, I appear to have missed number 4 and missed the "Greater London" part out of number 7! D'oh!
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Your impatience and willingness to compromise the quiz is most unwelcome.GuyBarry wrote:I'm bored with waiting for this. Here are the answers I submitted:
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The original deadline was supposed to be two weeks ago. If people haven't submitted their answers by now then they never will. I wouldn't have taken part if I'd known it was going to drag on for ever like this. Is it really so hard to put together a list of answers within a week?tractakid wrote: Your impatience and willingness to compromise the quiz is most unwelcome.
I would delete my answers but there's no point now that you've quoted them. If posting my answers is against the rules, then I'm quite happy to withdraw from the quiz.
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Re: Rare Entries Quiz VIII: London
From doing my own Rare Entries quizzes, it's not the list of answers that slows you down, it's calculating the scores that takes a good hour, hour and a half out of your evening. It's not a quick "total the correct answers", it takes a lot more time and effort.GuyBarry wrote:Is it really so hard to put together a list of answers within a week?
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The Raven said he would wait for my answers. I am a serial procrastinator, which is a problem, I admit. But rather than boldly proclaiming your dissatisfaction, simultaneously spoiling the quiz (I made a special effort to not to take notice of your answers before I submitted mine), perhaps you could have simply posted a courteous nudge? For example "Any news on when the answers will be posted?"GuyBarry wrote:The original deadline was supposed to be two weeks ago. If people haven't submitted their answers by now then they never will. I wouldn't have taken part if I'd known it was going to drag on for ever like this. Is it really so hard to put together a list of answers within a week?tractakid wrote: Your impatience and willingness to compromise the quiz is most unwelcome.
I would delete my answers but there's no point now that you've quoted them. If posting my answers is against the rules, then I'm quite happy to withdraw from the quiz.
I have removed your answers from my quote, so feel free to follow suit.
Remember, The Raven is the quizmaster. He can run the quiz however he likes.
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My apologies. As you say, it's up to The Raven.
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To be fair, the original deadline was 3rd October. What's the point in having a deadline if people don't bother sticking to it?
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Re: Rare Entries Quiz VIII: London
These things never run on time. The quizmaster makes a judgement- what's the point in calling a quiz if there has only been one entry? The more the better with these things.Sam wrote:To be fair, the original deadline was 3rd October. What's the point in having a deadline if people don't bother sticking to it?
The deadline is still useful- it signifies a length of time that entries will definitely be valid for. Take longer and you are taking a risk that you might enter too late. I would have no grounds for complaint if Raven had called the quiz without my entry, because I missed the deadline.
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It does seem a little unfair on those of us who took the trouble to get our entries in on time though. Why should some entrants get more time than others?tractakid wrote:These things never run on time. The quizmaster makes a judgement- what's the point in calling a quiz if there has only been one entry? The more the better with these things.Sam wrote:To be fair, the original deadline was 3rd October. What's the point in having a deadline if people don't bother sticking to it?
Anyway, I assume there are to be no more extensions, so let's wait for the results. (Just to clarify - I don't wish to withdraw but will do so if the Raven judges that I've broken the rules.)
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Don't take it so seriously. It's a game.
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I don't honestly believe that there is a time pressure built into the mechanism of the game, so fail to see how this could be unfair.GuyBarry wrote:
It does seem a little unfair on those of us who took the trouble to get our entries in on time though. Why should some entrants get more time than others?
Anyway, I assume there are to be no more extensions, so let's wait for the results. (Just to clarify - I don't wish to withdraw but will do so if the Raven judges that I've broken the rules.)
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You're given a certain amount of time to come up with the answers. If you can't come up with the answers within the allotted time, then you haven't fulfilled the stated requirements. I might have come up with a better list of answers if I'd been given three weeks rather than one.tractakid wrote: I don't honestly believe that there is a time pressure built into the mechanism of the game, so fail to see how this could be unfair.
EDIT: I've just looked at the last quiz. It was three months before the results were posted in that one. I'm surprised anyone could remember the questions by then.
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There are no such things as "better" answers with these quizzes. All you are doing is picking a choice that you hope no one else has. And as they're all going to be bluffing and double-bluffing when choosing, there isn't much scope for skill in this.
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