The disclaimer is one of things that means we still have this daily trivia.
It was a compromise instead of deleting it or geofencing it, ahem ahem. Would you rather a dailt trivia with a new disclaimer, or no daily trivia FOREVER?
The whole reason the daily trivia is enjoyable is that it’s curated by a person and is not generated by some algorithm or AI. Why wouldn’t the questions be based on an American point of view, considering the entire thing is run by an American? It’s not like you’re paying for this service. If your central criticism is that the person doing this service as a charity for us isn’t tailoring it to your culture, then maybe consider whether your criticism is reasonable or whether it SHOULD be dismissed.
We are also spending a LOT of extra time to make the quizzes accessible to people outside the U.S.
But it's impossible to make them accessible to people who don't even speak English as a first language. It's just a bridge too far. People know different things. Trivia that would be interesting to a Chinese person wouldn't appeal to a German.
I think generally it's fair enough that these questions are fairly anglo-centric. I guess as a Brit I sometimes only realise it as an 'issue' when I see a lot of specific american questions, while plenty of other english speakers would struggle with questions about crumpets and the royal family.
The only time the questions feel obnoxiously American is when its something about some sport played only in the US, or state capitals or something insanely niche to anyone non-american. Those things feel like too much to expect us to know. Who cares about ice hockey. There are 20 sports that are known worldwide, stick to those.
Non-related DTC comment....and not that I care about my 'streak' count, but it went from 30 or 40 something down to 1 between now & about 4 hours ago. QM: You got some bugs happening.....do you have like a sandbox environment to QA changes?
8/10 I didn't know the moons or the second breakfast. Knew the rocket from October Sky a film I saw recently about boys building rockets and it referred to Werner Von Braun.
I am not a native speaker; this quiz was not tailored for my locality. I am sad, but I am not complaining. 9/10 anyways. Who exactly is MCHammer, again?
It was a compromise instead of deleting it or geofencing it, ahem ahem. Would you rather a dailt trivia with a new disclaimer, or no daily trivia FOREVER?
But it's impossible to make them accessible to people who don't even speak English as a first language. It's just a bridge too far. People know different things. Trivia that would be interesting to a Chinese person wouldn't appeal to a German.
The only time the questions feel obnoxiously American is when its something about some sport played only in the US, or state capitals or something insanely niche to anyone non-american. Those things feel like too much to expect us to know. Who cares about ice hockey. There are 20 sports that are known worldwide, stick to those.
Other people who have lost streaks have usually lost them because they took a quiz with fewer than 5 answers.
You need at least 5 answered correctly to continue the streak.
A bit confusing I know.
Glad the LB is back.
I find it all extremely tiresome and I'm actively working to keep low value political commentary off the site.