Let's Try to Respect Dimby's Amazing Quizzes

Submitted by baptistegorce on November 8, 2024
It seems that we are all super happy today to have the opportunity to create and take a new type of quiz: sudden death. We have to thank our dear Quizmaster for having added it, but also Dimby who imagined this amazing concept.

Todday has been a true Gold Rush for many quizmakers, probably seeking for features. In a sort of general chaos, tens of quizzes of this kind have been published accross all the sections of the site, but of course especially the same one. And especially the English one. And of course many quizzes were overlapping some created a few hours or even minutes ago.

We should all be more careful when publishing a quiz, especially in such a particular situation. But the most bothering thing in this whole story in my humble opinion is that many of us are forgetting about the original Dimby's quizzes.

Just to take an example, today, two sudden death quizzes about prime numbers have been published by Luni and SirPhilippines... while Dimby had already created one five months ago.

EDIT: SirPhilippines ended up in switching his quiz to private. Thank you a lot for that!

After having spent thousands of hours on the site, I of course know that publishing an already-existing quiz is quite a common thing, even is very boring. But in that case, I feel like that's super disrespectuf of Dimby who is giving us all these quizmaking opportunities.

So what is my message? Well, let's be smart together. Let's check if a quiz doesn't already exist before publishing one. Let's remove or switch to private quizzes we published without realising that there was already a same one before. And most of all, let's respect, thank and congratulate our dear Dimby.

7 Comments
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Level 55
Nov 8, 2024
Luni, if you're reading it, know it's even more than embarrassing. If not Dimby who made this idea, you'd not even be able to write this stpid comment!
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Level 55
Nov 8, 2024
The good idea would be to put this thread on the front page. Everyone should see it.
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Level 66
Nov 8, 2024
I'm always happy to translate any of my quizzes onto the respective languages if they are wanted for their language section too, otherwise idk how to reach out and offer so..
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Level 68
Nov 8, 2024
I definitely agree with your point here, Poirot. Rather than make a sudden death quiz about geography, I made one about spelling (some not-so-subtle self-promotion), precisely because I did not want to risk getting caught up in a bunch of users all making the same quiz.

This definitely needed to be said, and I'm glad you chose to say it

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Level 57
Nov 8, 2024
Haha! This is so ironic. I made a quiz about English spelling after you and didn't realise it before you posted this comment. I now have something to hide. Thanks for having talked about it, even if it was not the goal of your comment!

Glad you found this thread useful.

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Level 68
Nov 9, 2024
XD
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Level 83
Nov 10, 2024
Thanks for the effort and your thoughtfulness. It’s ok, though. I already got a featured quiz for my efforts and we all got a new format. 🙂