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This site is making readers pass a quiz before commenting

69 points by Gargoyle 10y ago

everybodyknows 10y ago
Clever idea. Maybe HN could benefit from it?
- dancing_shark 10y ago
  I can see it now. How many microservices are needed for a CMS webapp? a. 17 b. 34 c. When you do service discovery properly, you don't need to count.
  - astrodust 10y ago
    d. N where N is >= 1 and less than 1e9.
  - elygre 10y ago
    I think I see where you are going, but in the sample quiz the questions all relate to the article, and are very factual: Not "how many micro services are needed?", but "how many micro services does the author think is needed?"
    - Cthulhu_ 10y ago
      a. "it depends" b. "it doesn't matter the author is WRONG" c. it's better to do it in <approach of the month>
janwillemb 10y ago
INAN (I'm not a Norwegian) but the questions are something like this: - is data surveillance a positive thing to DGF? - yes, they think it's good for privacy(?) - they haven't decided yet - no, they think it conflicts with human rights - which party votes in favor of DLD? - (three parties mentioned) - what does DGF stand for? - (three options)
- elygre 10y ago
  IAAN. The first question is slightly off. It goes "is the Norwegian Data Protection Agency positive to the DGF?"
kagamine 10y ago
I think in some instances, and they only use the quiz on some of the articles, this is a good way to filter the idiots, but on the negative side I wonder how many people forgot the intelligent thing they had to contribute because they had to spend time and mental energy completing a quiz. I hope this doesn't spread beyond serious things for serious people , it is very poor UX to ask users to jump through hoops and spend time on a quiz before they are allowed to participate. Surely a red warning text in the textarea element where the comment will be typed out is a better idea? The quiz still doesn't eliminate the need for moderation even though it _may_ have gone some way toward reducing that need.
- Cthulhu_ 10y ago
  If they forgot the intelligent thing they had to contribute then it wasn't intelligent to begin with - it's more likely to be a knee-jerk reaction. If people read the article properly they'll already have taken more time than would trigger a knee-jerk reaction.
  - Ntrails 10y ago
    I can lose my train of thought between walking from one room to another. It's got nothing to do with the value of the thought itself - just that I'm easily distracted. It's highly likely I can recapture the thought by stepping back into the environment in which it occurred (in this case skim re-reading the article I imagine), but honestly I don't tend to comment on ephemeral sites, rather post on communities about commenting. It seems more interesting/useful
    - falcor84 10y ago
      >I can lose my train of thought between walking from one room to another. That's not just you, it's a scientifically studied effect - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-throu...
      - 10y ago
lithos 10y ago
Javagaming.org has one for registration. Normally one of the hard looking programing problems that are easy, or a find the mistake that is keeping the program from running. Enough to look like a hard problem, even though a nonprofessional programmer gets through. Cut down on uninvested "program for free for me" threads, seo spammers (when those were a thing on forums), and spam.
nealrs 10y ago
I hacked on something like this a few months ago as a joke: https://github.com/nealrs/readsure https://github.com/nealrs/readsure

69 points by Gargoyle 10y ago

everybodyknows 10y ago

Clever idea. Maybe HN could benefit from it?

dancing_shark 10y ago
I can see it now. How many microservices are needed for a CMS webapp? a. 17 b. 34 c. When you do service discovery properly, you don't need to count.
- astrodust 10y ago
  d. N where N is >= 1 and less than 1e9.
- elygre 10y ago
  I think I see where you are going, but in the sample quiz the questions all relate to the article, and are very factual: Not "how many micro services are needed?", but "how many micro services does the author think is needed?"
  - Cthulhu_ 10y ago
    a. "it depends" b. "it doesn't matter the author is WRONG" c. it's better to do it in <approach of the month>

janwillemb 10y ago

INAN (I'm not a Norwegian) but the questions are something like this: - is data surveillance a positive thing to DGF? - yes, they think it's good for privacy(?) - they haven't decided yet - no, they think it conflicts with human rights - which party votes in favor of DLD? - (three parties mentioned) - what does DGF stand for? - (three options)

elygre 10y ago
IAAN. The first question is slightly off. It goes "is the Norwegian Data Protection Agency positive to the DGF?"

kagamine 10y ago

I think in some instances, and they only use the quiz on some of the articles, this is a good way to filter the idiots, but on the negative side I wonder how many people forgot the intelligent thing they had to contribute because they had to spend time and mental energy completing a quiz. I hope this doesn't spread beyond serious things for serious people , it is very poor UX to ask users to jump through hoops and spend time on a quiz before they are allowed to participate. Surely a red warning text in the textarea element where the comment will be typed out is a better idea? The quiz still doesn't eliminate the need for moderation even though it _may_ have gone some way toward reducing that need.

Cthulhu_ 10y ago
If they forgot the intelligent thing they had to contribute then it wasn't intelligent to begin with - it's more likely to be a knee-jerk reaction. If people read the article properly they'll already have taken more time than would trigger a knee-jerk reaction.
- Ntrails 10y ago
  I can lose my train of thought between walking from one room to another. It's got nothing to do with the value of the thought itself - just that I'm easily distracted. It's highly likely I can recapture the thought by stepping back into the environment in which it occurred (in this case skim re-reading the article I imagine), but honestly I don't tend to comment on ephemeral sites, rather post on communities about commenting. It seems more interesting/useful
  - falcor84 10y ago
    >I can lose my train of thought between walking from one room to another. That's not just you, it's a scientifically studied effect - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-throu...
    - 10y ago

lithos 10y ago

Javagaming.org has one for registration. Normally one of the hard looking programing problems that are easy, or a find the mistake that is keeping the program from running. Enough to look like a hard problem, even though a nonprofessional programmer gets through. Cut down on uninvested "program for free for me" threads, seo spammers (when those were a thing on forums), and spam.

nealrs 10y ago

I hacked on something like this a few months ago as a joke: https://github.com/nealrs/readsure https://github.com/nealrs/readsure