Re: Reaction to TRASHionals

Careful with the one size fits all generalizations there, Sean. There
are are quite a few undergrads with enough experience to know how to 
structure a ?. It does take some time and practice, but it is unfair 
to say "all undergrads do this..."

While Edmund is an undergrad, he has *more* than 5 years of playing, 
tournament running and question writing experience behind him. There 
are undergrads with about 2-3 years less experience who can write a 
well-formed question with guidance and practice.

-- PLS




--- In quizbowl_at_y..., cooterchekov <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> *ptui* (I spit upon you)
> 
> Edmund, an undergrad who has more trash-running and trash-writing 
> experience and skillz in his gallbladder than Sean has in his entire 
> body
> 
> --- In quizbowl_at_y..., allythin <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> > Questions written by undergrads...are going to be written more 
anti-
> > pyramidally and penalizing real knowledge bc of their general 
> > crappiness so of course you're going to get more of them.

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