Quiz Points Talk/Debate Panel

I see featured quizzes as an award for a great quiz but I think it is just too hard to get. Rather than making every quiz have points which is an insane idea, there should be more people who feature quizzes so that more quizzes are featured. I do agree with most of your arguments though.

It’s fair. Featured quizzes are front-page quizzes, and some wonderful quizzes just aren’t quite right for the front page. QM has every right to maintain his site how he wants and only feature quizzes that he thinks will bring traffic. The site donates a significant amount of its revenues to charity, after all. Plus it’s become the second biggest quiz site on the Internet, so clearly he’s doing something right.

I just think there should be more featured quizzes as a whole, and more consistently themed - recently, there's been a fair bit of sudden death quizzes, or sports quizzes. I think it would be great if an occasional unique science quiz or such would be featured.

Also, I feel like once you reach a certain point, all the (featured) quizzes that interest you are already done, and it's hard to find any more.

Maybe, also, there should be an easier way to access unfeatured quizzes - I feel like there are hundreds of amazing SVG quizzes out there, but they're just impossible to find.

I'm happy with current system

I say who cares, points have no real value

The current system works fine, it's not that easy to earn a point and there are diminishing returns for the later points (4th or 5th point for example)

There's plenty of featured quizzes to take. If you want those points, go out and get them.

i don’t have a huge problem with it as is. although i find it weird how they’re calculated, like i get 6/13 and it’s like 1/5 points for some reason

Mindlessly featuring quizzes without consideration is just a horrible idea because it encourages spamming low-effort quizzes and takes

Featured quizzes also in a way represent JetPunk as a whole and you can't just assign points to everything out there when many are of low quality

I like the current system

I think there should be 5 points for featured quiz and 2-3 points for unfeatured quizzes

Honestly I would like more science featured quizzes. Too much of a shortage on those

The current system is fine, but there are sometimes a shortage of featured quizzes on certain topics, like what Kilo said with Science.

I think the points for unfeatured quizzes is an excellent idea, it would encourage users to seek out some of the less popular excellent quizzes. However, I think there should be a few limitations.

Firstly, only 2 points available for an unfeatured quiz, and only after that quiz has a certain number of takes, maybe 500 or 1000 perhaps, or it is a certain age, maybe posted 12 months previously.

Also I think there should be a 6th point available on featured quizzes, but only if the taker beats his current score by a specific amount of time. For example, COTW quiz, first take 10m 30s. Then on a subsequent effort you beat that score by say 2 minutes, different amounts could be set for different quizzes. Or even if that user gets the "high score" or quickest time. It would only ever be 1 extra point to avoid users just retaking a quiz over and over.

i’m actually of the opinion that the way to make quizzes more fun and interesting to play has less to do with points and the featuring standards and more to do with the dynamics of quizzes themselves.

the reality is that most quizmakers are not SVG or coding wizards like Stewart, overtired, or Dimby. a lot of quizmakers, like myself, are working within the abilities of the basic quizmaking system. implementing features like new quiz types, whammies, simple ways to spice up design that don’t require CSS knowledge, and things to make answers more dynamic improves the variety, depth, and fun of quizzes while also being more accessible to amateur quizmakers.

i like making text quizzes, i like multiple choice, i think tile select is really fun, and i’ve gotten into sudden death. they’re simple-to-make formats that let me prioritize quality of questions, focus on the topic i want, and difficulty of answers. that’s just my two cents

Another idea that is kind-of related to points - maybe QM could implement more features to encourage levelling up - like, every 1000 points yo get, you get a day or two of a certain premium feature (but there needs to be more features for Premium, ig). This is encourage leveling up, and I think it might boost the amount of people getting premium (chess.com gave a month of free premium to people who downloaded a certain browser, and after the month ended, people will begin to miss having those features, and are more likely to invest, right?)