RachelChristine, excuse me for stepping away long enough for a night’s sleep, but I support the views already expressed on the various issues raised:
Count Hawaii as an individual island, not the whole set of islands
Allow the corrections/changes a poster may have posted after the original set
Let the tally after the 50th set be the “official” tally
For all who post after 50 sets have come in, let their “score” be based on the tally for the first 50.
Score each individual poster on each topic by the score that topic had in the tally. Example: Tally has 37 for answer A to Topic A and 22 for Answer A for Topic B, so Poster A with an A for Topics A and B would score 59 for those two topics. Continue such scoring for all 9 topics. Clear?
Identify the top 5 posters, don’t bother with those below Top 5.
Am I leaving anything out that needed a ruling?
This has been a real blast, everybody!
RachelChristine, please feel free to post a new thread with a new set of topics whenever you’re ready for it.
I should clarify: I support posting the “Official Tally” of the individual scores of each individual topic so that those below Top 5 can verify their own scores if they wish. No real purpose in having RachelChristine go to this additional effort. Doing the Tally and the Scoring and Posting of the Top 5 is way above the call of duty, I suggest.
Many thanks to RachelChristine in advance for some nice work!
For those who post after the “Official Tally” has been posted, tough break. It would be unfair to those who had either done their own tallying and scoring, or had waited for an official announcement, to be “beaten” by somebody who just gave the Top Answers as their own First Post.
As I see it, there are three categories of participants:
Those who posted with no idea there would be scoring
Those who posted knowing there would be scoring but with no “Official Score” to see
Those who will have posted after the OS is shown.
Categories 1 & 2 are in the same basic boat as I see it.
Category 3 may have posted before reading subsequent posts (including all the talk about Tallying and Scoring, etc.) but we must err on the side of assuming they will have had the chance to “fix” their answers. Honor System is a nice idea but probably not to be relied upon when all this prize money is at stake!
I welcome discussion on this and other issues, but as OP I suspect I ought to have final say. Besides, next “Game” whoever posts the OP can state her/his rules up front or add them as interest is shown.
I am so happy this thread got such participation. I’ve been hoping for such a thing for going on three years now! Wheeeee!
well I see we got enough posters last night while I was sleeping!
I’ll be posting the answers when I get home from church and have time to input these last 5 or so people. I think at this point right now there is exactly 50 posters, or maybe 51, but if anyone else post before I get home I’ll count them as well, just to be nice.
Okay, after reading Zeldar’s post, I will stop at the first 50 participants for the Survey. Anyone after that (and at this point we have 52 posters), will still get to have their names in for trying to win the Money in the Bank, but their answers won’t count towards the Top Answers on the Board.
This has been such fun! I’ll try to post new questions today, but I’ll have to come up with some good ones…
As you say, Zeldar, you’re the OP and have the right to determine the rules, but I would suggest the results would be more amusing if you didn’t allow for posters’ corrections after the fact. Many of them may have come from reading other people’s responses and then realizing how they were supposed to answer the question. I think the original goof-ups add a certain verisimilitude. But perhaps that’s just me.
Basically, I agree with you. Some few were deliberate attempts at humor and “bucking the tide.” I suspect without asking for (and getting) assurance that everybody posted immediately after reading the OP, there would be no way to assure that the posts were knee-jerk reactions to the questions. It would have been easy enough for anybody to read ahead (after that first set of answers) and pattern their own responses accordingly. It would appear that a few replies did just that.
But since this is a “for fun” venture, I think the slack is called for when asked for.
Once we actually start having more at stake than giggles maybe tightening the rules would make sense.
