Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Fellow Librarians,

I enjoy the Trivia Quiz very much. Though, like many others, I think there are way too many questions about Young Adult Vampire and Wizard books, and abount Manga & Comic Books - I can ignore them as I know that ANY book read is a good thing. However, many questions are posted that either have nothing to do with a book (or poem), or that make no sense, like the one posted on Oct 23rd that reads:

Was thomas jefferson pussed around when he was young?

The distractors were A. Yes, B. Maybe, 3. Cheese, and D. No. The correct answer was A.

There was no reference to a book or author.

Maybe I'm too old to understand this question - or don't understand a slang term - but I don't think that this is an appropriate question for a Trivia Quiz about books.

Should I take it upon myself to delete a question like this one? Or, is this more appropriately a 'super-librarian' function?

Yes or No?

Kate, that has been suggested numerous times in the Feedback group in this thread. According to the first post, it looks like Otis is thinking about it. You may want to go over there and add your vote in favor though. :-)

George, I tend to leave other users' trivia questions alone because I'm a coward. But that doesn't sound like a book-related question, so I think it could safely be deleted. You might want to wait on more opinions than just mine though.

But that doesn't sound like a book-related question, so I think it could safely be deleted.

Agreed.

Kate- That would be a nice function, however it probably wouldn't work very well because so many of the Harry Potter & twilight trivia question posters do not bother to enter the coding for the author/title that allows the software to recognize a question's subject.

It might be necessary to REQUIRE a question poster to enter the Title and/or Author when entering a question, rather than giving them the option. (I'd support this as well.)
Regards-

AFAIK, Superlibrarians cannot delete questions with that many responses -- only GR can.

Elizabeth, I would say that question is most definitely a spoiler, but there's not really anything we can do about it since it has so many answers except try to alert GoodReads to the problem.

Verta, I think this is the question you are talking about: http://www.goodreads.com/trivia/detai...
However, it has the same problem as above, since that question has over 40,000 answers.

As a work-around you can flag the question, and then edit it (just change a letter here or there) which will allow you ro reset the answers to 0. Then you can flag it a second time and delete it.

What about questions that appear several times? Should we be reporting/deleting them as well?

I'd vote to not delete because you'll be deleting many members' answers. I'm hoping some day there will be a combine feature as there is for quotes. Besides, there are so many questions, there's no way to be sure you're leaving an original and not just deleting duplicates given that many librarians work on edits simultaneously.

I think you're probably right Lisa. I'd really hate to delete a question that someone worked hard to put on the quiz. It is frustrating to come to the same question more than 5 times though. Maybe they will come up with a combine feature for this problem.