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rawsonj / triviabot

A simple IRC trivia bot written in python using twisted.
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Purge several thousand shitty questions #71

Closed duress-to-kill closed 7 years ago

duress-to-kill commented 7 years ago

Questions files 49-51, and parts of 48 and 52, contained questions of the form "What word means:", which had a high rate (~50%) of really stupid, ambiguous, or otherwise bad answers. Some appeared to mean "what non-english word means:" but didn't identify the language the answer was found in. Some were highly maginal racial content. I started to audit the list, but it turns out I don't have time to read 12k lines of bad trivia questions. Some samples: -Useless Trivia: What Word Means: 50`Fifty -Useless Trivia: What Word Means: A Balkan Musical Instrument`Gusla -Useless Trivia: What Word Means: A Balkan Musical Instrument`Gusle -Useless Trivia: What Word Means: A Balkan Musical Instrument`Gusli -Useless Trivia: What Word Means: A Baked Italian Dish`Pizza -Useless Trivia: What Word Means: A Black Person`(use your imagination)

rawsonj commented 7 years ago

Nope, but thanks for the PR.

I would agree that maybe half of those questions could likely go, but others are legit, with varying levels of difficulty.

If I wanted to delete entire files like this, I would have done so by now. I would rather have shitty questions mixed in with ok ones than a small database of arbitrarily "good" questions.