Can quizzes with more than 100 answers still be featured?

Submitted by Lexiconic on June 29, 2025
I know quizzes with over 100 answers can't be nominated, but can they still be spotlighted or directly featured by Quizmaster?
20 Comments
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Level 73
Jun 29, 2025
Fortunately, yes they can.
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Level 45
Jun 29, 2025
Thank you :D
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Level 18
Jun 29, 2025
They can’t be spotlighted I don’t think
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Level 45
Jun 29, 2025
Okay
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Level 82
Jun 29, 2025
Yeah they can manually featured by QM

It's my only hope.

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Level 66
Jun 29, 2025
QM can still choose quizzes with more than 100 answers to be featured and they can be spotlighted, just not nominated - this was a new policy brought in a few years ago. l believe the idea was to stop loads of people basically recreating the Countries of the World quiz with only the most minor of tweaks (or something like that).

All quizzes made up to the date of the policy change can still be nominated, irrespective of number of answers; since the change was brought in, only quizzes with 100 or fewer answers can be nominated.

I made the point at the time that quizzes such as my All UEFA Champions League Teams Ever would never have been featured under the new rules, yet it was, only because it topped the nominations leaderboard.

I would still support reversing this policy, perhaps with modifications or caveats to its initial form.

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Level 73
Jun 29, 2025
Yep, I completely agree with removing this policy.

It would be nice to see QM's reasons for still keeping it.

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Level 66
Jun 29, 2025
Also, my All UEFA Europa League Teams quiz, with 240 answers, is due to be featured in September after topping the nominations leaderboard a few weeks ago.

Virtually all of the nominations it received came after the new policy was introduced and ended up with something like 170. So it proves that there is still an appetite among users for quizzes completely divorced from the Countries of the World quiz with more than 100 answers (in the above case, more than double!).

On a side note, and I’m not just saying this because they’re my quizzes, but it’s refreshing when non-Geography quizzes get featured via nominations, so it would be nice if the policy were to be changed so that each week the top Geography and non-Geography quizzes both got featured. Otherwise we keep ending up with basically rehashed versions of the same quiz, which is what the new policy was meant to avoid in the first place!

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Level ∞
Jun 29, 2025
Too often, the nominations system has turned into an "achievements in quizmaking" award.

That's not the intention.

I want to feature quizzes that people actually want to take, not necessarily ones that require tons of expertise to make.

We still have this problem where a quiz will have like 100 nominations but only 500 takes. Probably some people who nominate don't even take the quiz.

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Level 73
Jun 29, 2025
Fair point, thanks for taking the time to respond!
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Level 45
Jun 29, 2025
Thanks, Quizmaster :D
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Level 66
Jun 29, 2025
@Quizmaster I think very few would disagree about the logic behind any of what you’ve said. There’s this feeling among some users that the simple act of having taken a month to create a map quiz where you have to name every road in the United Kingdom should in itself make it worthy of being featured, even though only about 3 people take it. A robust nominations policy rightly prevents such quizzes from being featured.

But I don’t think that necessarily gets to the heart of the issue I raised - the Champions League quiz I referenced has 154 answers. It’s only because I created it prior to the new nominations policy that it was eligible for nominations. It now has over 100k takes (and, for the record, wasn’t that tricky to make). I think a quiz being featured also accelerates the number of takes it gets and I doubt you would have featured it without the nominations - which, by the way, is your prerogative.

Surely there’s a middle ground?

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Level 82
Jun 29, 2025
Completely agree.
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Level 66
Jun 29, 2025
Also, I would say that it’s more the general act of having a featured quiz, rather than the nominations system specifically, which is considered an “achievement in quiz making”. Whether that’s the intention or not, that’s the reality, and I’m sure I speak on behalf of the entire JetPunk community in saying that. I mean…look at the title of this thread! I also think that having a Quizmaster rank and displaying the number of featured quizzes on a user’s profile strengthens this feeling.

There are (what I would consider to be) cliques within the JetPunk community, where users basically brown nose each other, writing spotlight blogs about their JetPunk mates even though their quizzes are actually of a very poor quality, and this also extends into mutual nominations. I’m not suggesting that any action against this should necessarily be taken; it’s just an observation (and if I’m observing it, then I’m sure others are too), but I think that goes some way to explaining your final point.

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Level 73
Jun 29, 2025
I too have noticed a couple of users nominating each other's quizzes just because it was made by that specific user. I haven't seen it happen to me as of yet, though perhaps I am biased?
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Level 57
Jun 30, 2025
Not sure I agree with the last point, I was quickly looking through quizzes with 100+ noms and they all have 4 figure if not 5 figure number of takes. Even more niche quizzes like this one or this one with 40k takes still have loads of takes. this one has less than 2k takes with nearly 70 noms. This is the first I found under 1k at 50 noms. I didn't look through every quiz, so correct me if I missed anything.
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Level 8
Jun 29, 2025
What about above 200?
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Level 63
Jun 29, 2025
I think the limit should be increased to like 150
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Level 63
Jun 29, 2025
Yeah but whens the last time it happened (genuine curiosity)
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Level 57
Jun 30, 2025
All Europa League Teams Ever won recently, and is being featured in September.