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Beans15
Moderator
Canada
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 Posted - 02/05/2007 : 10:30:45
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Does anyone else find it very annoying to have people google the right answer to a trivia question as a first try?? Why not take a guess using your hockey knowledge rather than going to the books or google right away. I am not saying that I don't do that, but never on the first guess and I give a chance to have other people guess. If there have been more than 5 guesses and no one got it, then go look it up. Before that, use a guess. It sure doesn’t impress me. Anyone can type in a search in google.
Anyone else agree??
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PuckNuts
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
2414 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 10:41:59
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I am not here to impress people...
After all tomorrow is another day... |
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blade
Rookie
Canada
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Posted - 02/05/2007 : 10:59:40
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| honestly doesn't make a difference to me. i want to know the answer, so if someone googles and puts in the right answer then i get answers faster. good times. |
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bablaboushka
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
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Posted - 02/05/2007 : 11:54:20
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| Well I know that when I asked trivia, I asked that people be respectful and not share their answers if they had to research it on the internet. Most often, the point of trivia is to test people's knowledge, not their researching capabilities. But the point also is to ask reasonable questions, and not ones that require someone to dig into hockey's dusty archives to find the answer. PuckNuts' questions are kind of like that and I have no problem with him doing it but I'm just saying it defeats the purpose of the meaning I have of trivia. |
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Mikhailova
PickupHockey All-Star
USA
2918 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 12:21:18
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| What's the point of asking trivia questions if everyone just looks up the answers? As babs said, that defeats the purpose. It just becomes a race as to who can find it on Google the fastest; takes the fun out of trying to guess the answers. After 5 or so wrong guesses or if it's a real hard question, THEN people could look it up, but otherwise what's the point? |
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PuckNuts
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
2414 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 12:42:17
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When someone gives an answer how do you know how they came across the information ?
Light travels faster than sound, this is why some people appear bright, until they speak... |
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Mikhailova
PickupHockey All-Star
USA
2918 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 12:47:20
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| You don't, but if they repeatedly get the correct answers on the first try, you know something's fishy.... |
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Buick92
Top Prospect
Canada
73 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 12:52:58
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| People that say they don't google, do it the most... |
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PuckNuts
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
2414 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 12:55:19
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Did it ever occur to anyone that some people are smarter than others...
Light travels faster than sound, this is why some people appear bright, until they speak... |
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Buick92
Top Prospect
Canada
73 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 12:57:13
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| Was that a shot at me ? |
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Mikhailova
PickupHockey All-Star
USA
2918 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 12:59:33
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| Yes, certainly some people are smarter than others. But smart enough to answer every single question right every single time? I dunno....But if you are, that's great. But that's not the point. The point is, if you don't know the answer, don't look it up and then post it before other people have had a chance to answer. Just guess or stay out of it. |
Edited by - Mikhailova on 02/05/2007 12:59:53 |
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PuckNuts
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
2414 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 13:01:07
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Are my questions to hard for you ?
Light travels faster than sound, this is why some people appear bright, until they speak... |
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bablaboushka
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
2417 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 13:03:34
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I would like to think people respect the honour system and that when we ask people to guess without looking it up, or if they look it up not to share the answer, that they respect my wish. If you don't want to that's your problem (not directed at anyone in particular), but it just takes the whole point out of asking these questions.
And PuckNuts, of course some people know more than others and theres no way to prove whether or not someone looked up an answer. Your questions were very difficult ones though, where you pretty much HAVE to look up the answer. Even for the relatively easier ones I didn't know, I sure did look them up - I won't deny it. I was courteous enough to not share my answer afterwards though and I would hope all would do the same.
I think the point here is that people who want to answer the trivia questions should respect the conditions of the person asking the question. I didn't want anyone researching the answers to my questions because they weren't EXTREMELY hard, but PuckNuts said that he didn't mind people using Google for his because they were harder questions, so Google away. |
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Mikhailova
PickupHockey All-Star
USA
2918 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 13:05:51
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| PuckNuts--On several of them I could've taken wild guesses but they would've been wrong, since the answers were not players I would've guessed. I did notice that on every single question it took tons of incorrect guesses to finally get it right, and whoever did get it right said it "took some digging" or something like that. So in general I'd say your questions are harder than the rest of ours. Googling on hard ones is different than googling on the average-level ones. |
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PuckNuts
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
2414 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 13:10:47
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I agree with you, no problem. By the way I don't even use google, but if you like I could give you a list of books I have read...The best ones are Total Hockey (second addition) its more than 2 inches thick with all kinds of Hockey Information, and Weird facts about hockey, not as big but full of interesting hockey stories...
Light travels faster than sound, this is why some people appear bright, until they speak... |
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Mikhailova
PickupHockey All-Star
USA
2918 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 13:15:13
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Cool, I'll have to go to Barnes & Noble tonight, LOL
(That's a bookstore chain...I know they've got Chapters in Canada, dunno about B&N  ) |
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PuckNuts
PickupHockey Veteran
Canada
2414 Posts |
Posted - 02/10/2007 : 21:19:55
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How did you make out at the book store, there are hundreds of good books to read about hockey...
Light travels faster than sound, this is why some people appear bright, until they speak... |
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