I feel like I win when I lose

[venta]

I've had a fabulous idea. Everyone likes lyrics quizzes, right ? Well, nearly everyone. But they take time to write...

So, what we need is the self-writing lyrics quiz. But that's not the kind of thing that automated systems are good at. Instead, how about a cooperative effort where everyone does a little bit ? You fill in one lyric in the poll below, you fill in the answer, and by tomorrow we'll have enough for a proper quiz (and everyone will get at least one correct). I'll post it up on Friday afternoon, which is the right and proper time for such timewasting nonsense.

So:

• Be correct. At least have a little google and make sure you've got the words right.


• Don't be too obscure. Even if that band from Brighton are brilliant, don't use a line of theirs if there's not a good chance that a decent number of people will have heard of it.

I expect from the known readership here that we're mostly after rock, pop, indie or gothy stuff. If there's a secret clutch of hiphop fans out there, shout up.

On with the show!

[Poll #1443308]

Comments

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking that a lyric setter scores whichever number is lower of the number of people who solved their lyric correctly and twice the number of people who solved their lyric incorrectly. None-correct scores 0, 50% correct scores 50%, 66% correct scores 66%, 75% correct scores 50%, all-correct scores 0.

Alternatively, you could run the game so that the setter scores whichever number is lower of twice the number who solved correctly and the number who solved incorrectly, to try to get the sweet spot at 33%. More frustrating, so probably less fun.

I should come up with a lyric now.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, I think that's the right sort of shape, and nice and simple to evaluate. And yes, I agree that 33% would be too dispiriting for players.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think the former suggestion would be good, but probably not very workable if done as 'crowdsourcing'. To be honest, I suspect nothing will work well that way, because people lose interest (in general) as soon as they've answered the questions.

If I have time over the weekend to crunch the numbers it might work, otherwise I fear we're doomed to languish in scoreless obscurity :)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

This is one of those times when my long-promised but never-realized app for automatically generating a CSV file from a set of LJ poll results would come in handy. Ah well.