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galacticpuzzlehunt / gph-site

Django app for running a puzzlehunt (open-source version)
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"This wasn't helpful" wasn't helpful #34

Open Tahnan opened 1 year ago

Tahnan commented 1 year ago

Hi there! I've run into an issue as an end user of gph-site: not running a hunt, but playing in hunts run using it. I hit this in the most recent GPH, I think, and then also in the current ECPH:

When a hint is answered, there's a button you can click that's labeled "This wasn't helpful". Several times, I've gotten a hint that was helpful, it just wasn't helpful enough, or I had a followup or some sort, and the button as labeled made me think I shouldn't click it. In fact, in the GPH, I used a second hint on the same puzzle when that happened. But based on clicking it in the ECPH just now, it looks like it explicitly says that what you're asking is a follow-up (and the running team may ask you to use a new hint)--that is, you are supposed to use it in the "helpful, but maybe not helpful enough" case.

Would it make sense to change the default text on this button to something like "Ask a follow-up question"?

Thanks!

cesium12 commented 1 year ago

Yeah, this has come up in GPH feedback. The original was coded in a hurry and we kept it by inertia in 2022 since no one had made enough of an effort to settle a better phrasing for the button (or explainer text). I still don't have a great idea myself, but I'm happy to take a PR with a concrete proposal (it's in hints.html).