How do you delete a trivia question?

[Sofia]

I've found a couple of trivia questions that are asking of a person's opinion, such as "Is this book the best ever written?", or "Did you like this book?", etc. Is there a way to delete such questions?

[Lisa]

Sofia, I don't think there's a way to delete them but librarians can hide them.

[Lisa]

Sofia, I don't think there's a way to delete them but librarians can hide them.

At each of those questions, there's a "hide" link.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Are we talking about the never-ending trivia questions or quizzes? The former can be deleted; the latter can be hidden.

[Lisa]

rivka wrote: "Are we talking about the never-ending trivia questions or quizzes? The former can be deleted; the latter can be hidden."

Ah, Sofia did say trivia. Correct.

[Lobstergirl]

The first five questions here are identical, at least in my browser. Can someone delete four of them? Thanks.

http://www.goodreads.com/trivia/book/...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

DON'T DELETE. The questions are NOT duplicates -- they're just showing up multiple times for some reason.

[Sofia]

Lisa wrote: "Sofia, I don't think there's a way to delete them but librarians can hide them.

At each of those questions, there's a "hide" link."

Thanks =D I can't find it anymore, so I'm assuming someone hid it. I'll use that if I find more questions like that.

[Ralph Gallagher]

I think it'd be nice if we could merge trivia questions like we can merge quizzes. I wonder how hard that'd be to implement.

[Lobstergirl]

rivka wrote: "DON'T DELETE. The questions are NOT duplicates -- they're just showing up multiple times for some reason."

Good - didn't want to mess with it myself as I suspected it could be a bug.

[Lobstergirl]

And I'm seeing the same bug today but it's a different question (created by the same user though).

[Lobstergirl]

Ralph wrote: "I think it'd be nice if we could merge trivia questions like we can merge quizzes. I wonder how hard that'd be to implement."

Not an answer to your issue, but since the duplicate-question software doesn't work all the time, I always do a trivia search to see if the question I want to add is already in existence. I think this should be part of trivia-writing etiquette.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I already let the PTB know about the bug. Very weird.

[Ralph Gallagher]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Ralph wrote: "I think it'd be nice if we could merge trivia questions like we can merge quizzes. I wonder how hard that'd be to implement."

Not an answer to your issue, but since the duplicate-que..."

Being able to merge quotes would greatly reduce the Twilight quote spam. (How many times can they ask what color his eyes are ffs!?)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Except quizzes can only be merged if they have the same author. So that wouldn't help much for trivia.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Lobstergirl wrote: "And I'm seeing the same bug today but it's a different question (created by the same user though)."

This should be fixed now.

[Banjomike]

rivka wrote: "Except quizzes can only be merged if they have the same author. So that wouldn't help much for trivia."

Sometimes it would:
http://www.goodreads.com/trivia/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/trivia/show/...

Same author, consecutive numbers.

Incidently, is there a specific section for trivia-type librarian chat? If not, why not?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Banjomike wrote: "If not, why not?"

Um. Because I don't think anyone requested one before? ;) Coming right up.