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    Hexus Mastermind?

    Here's an idea I've been turning over for the past week or so.

    One of ways in which I've found Hexus to be repeatedly surprising/impressive is the variety and depth of knowledge found here. Some random question or comment pops up and in floods the commentary/insight/advice and experience. Perhaps this shouldn't be so surprising since if this is the 'information age', those who build, manage, maintain and improve the digital world might naturally be considered the digital archivists of sorts, digital curators or librarians perhaps? Either way, I've never found another forum like it.

    Anyway, what with summer coming up I've been thinking about a sort of event we could hold, if it's of interest. Hexus Mastermind. Less a competition and more a chance to challenge oneself and maybe dig a bit deeper into the hidden depths of knowledge shared among the Hexites.

    Here's the idea:

    Any and all interested members sign-up to a thread with both a primary and secondary chosen subject. It might be best to set a deadline for signing up.
    Once the names and subjects are in, Hexus members can submit questions to me (or, if this proves popular, some help might be needed/appreciated) for vetting/organising the questions for each participant. I figure maybe a total of 20 questions per entrant with specifically 15 on the primary subject and 5 on the secondary subject. The questions should be directly related to the chosen subject, but since this is less about a straight-up competition, it might be interesting to permit a limited number of questions with a more subjective or personal slant - that is, something like the member's opinion on an aspect of the chosen subject. These sorts of questions could be restricted to 3 for the primary subject and 1 for the secondary.

    Once all the questions are in and organised for a given user, I can only think of two ways of issuing them. 1 - Arrange a specific time for them to be online and then post the questions in a specific thread so they can be answered (either all at once or one by one - which would take more work). 2 - Set up some sort of live chat to do it real time (although I suspect that this might breach the personal online privacy preferences of some members).

    Obviously, it would be easy to 'cheat' by using outside resources to answer the questions. The challenge would have to run on the 'honour system' - that the member will answer all questions using ONLY the knowledge they already have in their heads with no reference to outside sources of any kinds - the point of this being not so much to get all the questions right but to challenge oneself, and to explore the subject areas and the participants' approach to the subjects.

    We could set a time-frame for answering them all - maybe a day? After that, people could chirp in on the threads or whatever. See how people do, maybe generate some talking points?

    That's about it, I just thought it might be an interesting little activity we could do.

    Interesting?


    UPDATE - Best bet for the sign-up and question thread will be to make a new thread, which I will do. Just post your two choices. I'll write a short intro which a mod, if possible, can edit into each sign-up post. Each post in that thread will then represent a contestant. Members can review that thread and start submitting questions BY PM, to named person in the intro. This will be me at first, unless it gets to be too many - if so, help would be appreciated to volunteer to receive and vet questions.
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    Re: Hexus Mastermind?

    Cracking idea for a thread mate.

    I will be happy to participate

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    Re: Hexus Mastermind?

    Thanks. I hope so.

    If there is enough interest, maybe we should start a separate thread for signing up, though. We can use this one for hammering out and details on how it might work. That way it'll be easier to separate out the sign-ups and subjects?

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    Re: Hexus Mastermind?

    Yeah, could do

    We could get interest in this thread and I could split it off when we have participants if needs be, either way I will try and help you out where I can with it.

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    Re: Hexus Mastermind?

    Quote Originally Posted by Ferral View Post
    Yeah, could do

    We could get interest in this thread and I could split it off when we have participants if needs be, either way I will try and help you out where I can with it.
    Cheers! Much appreciated!
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    Re: Hexus Mastermind?

    I like it. Are there any rules on what the chosen subject can be?

    Ferral - Your chosen subjects has made me feel another C64 weekend coming up!.........

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    Re: Hexus Mastermind?

    Quote Originally Posted by opel80uk View Post
    I like it. Are there any rules on what the chosen subject can be?
    I don't necessarily think there need to be other than to keep it within forum rules. I would imagine that if your chosen subject is "Naughty words that Hexus don't want to see", or "The internet's most shocking pornographic images", or, "The best websites for illegal downloads", there might be issues. That's why the question vetting is there though. It's possible a 'tricky' subject generates some solid questions. Maybe the best approach would be to permit any subject, but then see where the questions go?

    MOD input would be appreciated here.
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    Re: Hexus Mastermind?

    Yeah, sticking with forum guidelines is the way to go, there are millions of subjects you could choose.

    Avoid the usual stuff that goes against forum rules

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    Re: Hexus Mastermind?

    Stick me down for General Knowledge
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    Re: Hexus Mastermind?

    Galant... that is a SUPERB idea!


    v v clever!

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    Re: Hexus Mastermind?

    Quote Originally Posted by Galant View Post
    Any and all interested members sign-up to a thread with both a primary and secondary chosen subject. It might be best to set a deadline for signing up.
    Once the names and subjects are in, Hexus members can submit questions to me (or, if this proves popular, some help might be needed/appreciated) for vetting/organising the questions for each participant. I figure maybe a total of 20 questions per entrant with specifically 15 on the primary subject and 5 on the secondary subject. The questions should be directly related to the chosen subject, but since this is less about a straight-up competition, it might be interesting to permit a limited number of questions with a more subjective or personal slant - that is, something like the member's opinion on an aspect of the chosen subject. These sorts of questions could be restricted to 3 for the primary subject and 1 for the secondary.

    Once all the questions are in and organised for a given user, I can only think of two ways of issuing them. 1 - Arrange a specific time for them to be online and then post the questions in a specific thread so they can be answered (either all at once or one by one - which would take more work). 2 - Set up some sort of live chat to do it real time (although I suspect that this might breach the personal online privacy preferences of some members).
    Well as I couldn't even get 5 different members to grasp 'booking' a post each in order to compose a spontaneous one-off limerick, I look forward to seeing the technicalities of this come off.

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    Re: Hexus Mastermind?

    I'd certainly be up for show-casing my lack of knowledge

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    Re: Hexus Mastermind?

    I'll give it a go...

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    Re: Hexus Mastermind?

    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33 View Post
    Galant... that is a SUPERB idea!


    v v clever!
    Cheers!

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    Re: Hexus Mastermind?

    Any more takers?

    I suppose there's no real rush for this, but I was thinking it'd be nicer to have several at once.

    On the other hand, maybe a few at a time might be an idea - start with what you have and see if interest grows...?
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    I'll take that action...

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