It would be funnier...
If you guys actually put the correct answers in the quiz and tested your own audience...
Norway Quizwall experiment ends with more quizzing than commenting
Earlier this year Norway's government-owned broadcaster embarked on a stern Lutheran experiment with story commenters. Before being able to post a comment on a story, they would need to pass a reading comprehension quiz, to prove they had read it all. (Much like Keith in Mike Leigh's Nuts In May who had chewed each piece of …
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 21:38 GMT Kane
Re: It would be funnier...
"This is just typical of Microsoft...."
No, I have to disagree, brown sauce (whatever brand) is not appropriate for a bacon sandwich, it has to be tomato ketchup, every time. Brown sauce only belongs in a sausage sandwich.
And you can keep you opinion about sweet tea to yourself, thank you very much!
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 11:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
Interesting experiment but...
If this were rolled-out more widely, who would write the questions?
a) The article author? (With the risk that all answers are deliberately wrong so no comments can be made.)
b) A moderator? (With the risk that the mod has misunderstood the article.)
c) Someone paid for by the site's advertisers? (With the risk that any answer that names the sponsors is automatically the 'right' one.)
Yep, (c) it is then.
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 11:44 GMT Alistair
OutRageUs
OMG!
(rant rant rant) {whine, whinge bitch}
!!!! !!!!! !!!!! BLOCKCAPS FOUR SHOUTIES !!!!!! !!!!!!
/webcommentard
Personally I suspect that it would not matter if the reader managed to get all the Q's correct, they'd still manage to misinterpret things and find some way to turn the article into either a left wing issue or a right wing issue. I've found the amount of stupid on the loose in the interwebs lately to be almost overwhelming.
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 12:28 GMT Anonymous Coward
Pedant Power!
"The experiment was conducted by the national broadcaster of which Scandinavian country?"
Tsk, you included Finland in the list of 'Scandinavian' countries. Schoolboy error, it's not on the peninsular. Now had you asked for 'Nordic' or more acurately, Fenno-Scandinavia (or, I'll let you off with Fennoscandia) I would have let this pass. As it stands, you are being removed from my bookmarks for shoddy, shoddy journalism. Hang your heads......
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 13:46 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: Pedant Power!
I see your Tsk, and raise you a Tsk Tsk. Denmark isn't on the Scandinavian Peninsula either - but is in Scandinavia.
Also both you and El Reg are wrong. The area is actually called Scandiwegia... Which includes Finland, and any other country that makes depressing TV dramas, where nobody says much but everyone wears really chunky sweaters.
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 12:42 GMT lukewarmdog
confused
So for the first line, there were 140 people that got the quiz right and were eligible to post but only 9 people posted. 150 got it wrong and weren't eligible. Are they unique posters or could have you multiple attempts until you'd cracked it?
Anyway it just seems to prove that no matter what question you ask, very few actually care enough to post. Which seems to me to imply that the quiz is way more popular than the article. In fact, they'd be best off stop posting stuff nobody cares about and move into the quizzing market where they appear to have quite the audience. Could even be money in it.
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 12:53 GMT magickmark
Wonderful Stuff
I must say this was an excellent article about witchcraft in a post modernist medieval Europe, especially the bits about homosexual monks and the Malleus Maleficarum's pivitol role in the Spanish Inquisition.
El Reg must cover this subject in more detail.
Though I fail to see the IT connection.
Err. is this the right article?
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 12:55 GMT breakfast
This does remind me of the classic NPR April Fools from a couple of years ago.
To be honest it is hard to see much value in most comment sections- 80% of them are simply a habitat for trolls, ideologues and credulous chumps. Not the erudite Register commentards, obviously, we barely break 50%.
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 13:48 GMT Alan W. Rateliff, II
80% of them are simply a habitat for trolls, ideologues and credulous chumps.
Are you describing the comments section or Kieren McCarthy's articles?
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Wednesday 16th August 2017 10:53 GMT John Brown (no body)
On a slightly serious note...
...it seems the click-baity and often downright misleading headlines can flick some commenters into a pre-determined mode, no matter what the content of the article. The BBC do this frequently, the headline often giving the appearance of the opposite of the actual story. In print, some "news" papers carry on though the first paragraph or two before you get to the actual facts, ie the bit that the least readers will ever actually get to. At least with El Reg we already know they are doing it deliberately.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
