IQ testing now required before posting

[PrimeNumber7]

April fools! I hope that people had fun. It's always funny how many people are actually fooled.

Credit to Halab and Cyrus for the idea. The triva questions were from the OpenTriviaQA database by uberspot.

How the IQ score worked was that it was impossible to go above 200 or below 0, and it was supposed to be centered around 100, so it got easier to lose points and harder to gain them the higher your IQ got above 100, and vice-versa for below 100. The questions themselves all had the same weight. It was very easy to cheat (not least because the answers were all public), but just for fun, here are all of the final IQ scores: https://bitcointalk.org/af2022.txt

Would you consider implementing something like this, even if the scores are meaningless using bitcoin-related (and potentially crypto-related) questions? I think it would increase the engagement of newer users, and encourage newer users to learn more about bitcoin than their original reason for posting.

[GeorgeJohn]

I knew it was April fool,  because the length people were reacting on implementation of this or not, was so curious, because i know every April theirs always a prank of April fool by theymos, thanks, because this one is a very strong April fool

[o_e_l_e_o]

Funfact: @o_e_l_e_o become user who has the highest and also the lowest IQ

So when can I expect my profile badge certifying me as simultaneously the smartest and the dumbest person on the forum?

[YellowSwap]

God damn, I ate this up like a sandwich 🥪 😅😅😅

[LoyceV]

Credit to Halab and Cyrus for the idea.

You fooled me with that link

The questions themselves all had the same weight. It was very easy to cheat

I would have expected a much more complicated calculation, a punishment for not answering some of the questions, and some random factor that makes it much harder or easier for certain people. Are you going easy on us now?

[joker_josue]

April fools! I hope that people had fun. It's always funny how many people are actually fooled.

Credit to Halab and Cyrus for the idea. The triva questions were from the OpenTriviaQA database by uberspot.

How the IQ score worked was that it was impossible to go above 200 or below 0, and it was supposed to be centered around 100, so it got easier to lose points and harder to gain them the higher your IQ got above 100, and vice-versa for below 100. The questions themselves all had the same weight. It was very easy to cheat (not least because the answers were all public), but just for fun, here are all of the final IQ scores: https://bitcointalk.org/af2022.txt

Thanks for this little prank! 

It was a lot of fun, and at the same time educational. Because regardless of the way in which the answer was researched, some questions that were not known, we learned something. And that's always good.

And I'm even happier, because I was in the top50, among so many excellent forum users! 

[buwaytress]

April fools! I hope that people had fun. It's always funny how many people are actually fooled.

Credit to Halab and Cyrus for the idea. The triva questions were from the OpenTriviaQA database by uberspot.

How the IQ score worked was that it was impossible to go above 200 or below 0, and it was supposed to be centered around 100, so it got easier to lose points and harder to gain them the higher your IQ got above 100, and vice-versa for below 100. The questions themselves all had the same weight. It was very easy to cheat (not least because the answers were all public), but just for fun, here are all of the final IQ scores: https://bitcointalk.org/af2022.txt

Nice one o_e_l_e_o for taking both top and bottom spot. You not only are the smartest, but the least. The alpha and the omega. The victor and the vanquished.

Nice one theymos.

[fillippone]

Funfact: @o_e_l_e_o become user who has the highest and also the lowest IQ

So when can I expect my profile badge certifying me as simultaneously the smartest and the dumbest person on the forum?

As your main profile has the highest IQ of the whole forum, I guess that obtaining those badges was actually the plan from the beginning, wasn't it?

[naim027]

punishment for not answering some of the questions,

The funny thing is that the score never changed if we do not answer the trivia. But, Some of us are always afraid of that and they tried to answer the trivia even if they don't know the answer. This way they lose the score. LOL. Take SFR10 For example, I am not sure if he did it for testing purposes.

[Halab]

You fooled me with that link

Haha, always beware of Theymos .

Actually it's a post I made several weeks ago in the Staff section about problematic topics about corona and the war in Ukraine, I say at the end something like "to solve the problem, we should make an IQ test to the members... Oh I just found an idea for April Fool's Day". But I wasn't really serious and I forgot. And a few days ago, Cyrus quoted this sentence and Theymos did the rest .

[decodx]

I had fun with this April Fool's joke. Is anyone else disappointed that the event is already over?

Nevertheless, I can't help thinking that something like this could actually be useful for the forum. Of course, I don't mean a trivial knowledge quiz, but something related to crypto. Some algorithm that could calculate how much crypto knowledge an individual member has.

[BlackHatCoiner]

April fools!

Thanks for the fun and keep up with that enthusiastic spirit!

Some algorithm that could calculate how much crypto knowledge an individual member has.

Nah. It wouldn't last long 'til few smarty-pants sold the answers. After all, we already have a crypto knowledge meter: Merits. Those with the knowledge vote those who are knowledgeable with their sMerits.

Of that I'm agreed, though. 

i await the great forum exodus patiently

instead of trivia questions, how about forum rules instead next time?

[isaac_clarke22]

April fools! I hope that people had fun. It's always funny how many people are actually fooled.

Thanks for the April Fools Joke, theymos! It was fun even for just a day. Too bad I was out of my home during whole day this happened, but good thing I was able to join this conversation even for a short-time.

U cant stahp me fr0m poosting

That question really caught me off-guard, ngl.

[TryNinja]

It was very easy to cheat (not least because the answers were all public), but just for fun, here are all of the final IQ scores: https://bitcointalk.org/af2022.txt

haha, cheating? idk what you're implying but no sir, there was no cheating! believe me!!

[PrimeNumber7]

Credit to Halab and Cyrus for the idea.

You fooled me with that link

I think most likely, the link leads to a thread in the staff sub. The mods have access to the sub, so they are able to see the post without any intervention or doing anything special other than being logged in. I don’t think the link was intended to be an additional prank.

[krishnaverma]

April fools! I hope that people had fun. It's always funny how many people are actually fooled.

Credit to Halab and Cyrus for the idea. The triva questions were from the OpenTriviaQA database by uberspot.

How the IQ score worked was that it was impossible to go above 200 or below 0, and it was supposed to be centered around 100, so it got easier to lose points and harder to gain them the higher your IQ got above 100, and vice-versa for below 100. The questions themselves all had the same weight. It was very easy to cheat (not least because the answers were all public), but just for fun, here are all of the final IQ scores: https://bitcointalk.org/af2022.txt

High IQ people like me were disappointed by this twist.

[snipie]

It was very easy to cheat (not least because the answers were all public), but just for fun, here are all of the final IQ scores: https://bitcointalk.org/af2022.txt

haha, cheating? idk what you're implying but no sir, there was no cheating! believe me!!

The funny part is when you see your IQ dropping after you cheated your browser randomly pop up a Google search with the answer that sometimes be ambiguous!

134.9411 theymos
134.6563 qwertyup23
134.6209 DroomieChikito
134.5664 AmoreJaz
134.5664 Saniul159
134.5548 snipie

That made my day
I pressed "post" and the warning about a new post popped, I thought a have to answer a question 

[JollyGood]

It was fun while it lasted... Another nice way for forum members to have fun on April Fools Day and for theymos to do something new. Last year was a very good prank and this year too. What will he planned for next year?

[Smartvirus]

It was fun while it lasted... Another nice way for forum members to have fun on April Fools Day and for theymos to do something new. Last year was a very good prank and this year too. What will he planned for next year?

Yeah, obviously! As threatening as it was projected upon first glance, except for the few that already knew before hand, I wished it was left to last a while. Perhaps for a week as stated in OP due to the Knowledgeable aspect of it. The questions stretched as far as it could and wasn't forum based but extends to life and what's obtainable globally.

It made me flashback to my childhood whole growing up. There was this gum wrapped in glossy paper and within it was written current affairs, synonymous to what we experienced on the forum yesterday and it kind of brushed our knowledge of the world globally.  Its all gone now, just like the fun of yesterday's IQ test. Very excersing and fun.

[shahzadafzal]

It was very easy to cheat (not least because the answers were all public), but just for fun, here are all of the final IQ scores: https://bitcointalk.org/af2022.txt

haha, cheating? idk what you're implying but no sir, there was no cheating! believe me!!

I believe you TryNinja. No cheating there was.