Listen to Legless
Hey overmods, just to say I agree with absolutely everything that Legless already posted www.b3ta.com/questions/bugs_and_feature_requests/post65028/ (including giving him his bloody name back!). He's one of your most frequent posters and has been around for ages so speaks for all your 'old skool' QOTW answerers, like me. On top of that I've got just one suggestion about the subject of the QOTW. Again I totally agree with Legless, I've pretty much stopped posting cause I'm either struggling to come up with answers to a really narrow question or I've already answered a very similar question, so let us have control! I know you won't want to give this power up, so I suggest a compromise: take, say, 3 of the most popular suggested questions from the 'What should we ask...' section and come up with, say, 2 of your own ideas to make a shortlist. Then when someone posts an answer to the QOTW they are automatically given one vote to decide which of the five we have the following week (one vote per person, not one per answer though). Easy. The result is no more bitching about the question, people have an opportunity to put a weeks thought into their answer for the following question and you're guaranteed good stories as the people who have to actually post the answers will vote for questions they have good stories for. And if you're so damn desperate to have stories about dentists you can leave the shortlist the same four that didn't get chosen and just add a new one in case you managed to come up with five brilliant suggestions at once.

Pretty please? The QOTW is starting to turn into the bastard child of b3ta. All unloved and ignored when for my money its the funniest part of the site.
( Gleeballs is mostly made out of chocolate and hate., Fri 10 Nov 2006, 8:11, Reply)