[AKosygin]

It has come to the Administration Team that some posters have expressed that they are rather "underwhelmed", by the "toughness" of the questions posted to be asked of the Final Fantasy XI Development Team; citing them to be at "a decent challenge" at best (and "Easy Prey" at worst).

If you believe you have some "Very Tough" or "Incredibly Tough" questions, please post them at the Ask SE Questions area and then PM me, AKosygin, and I will consider them. While they won't be the first 5 questions, very good entries will be in the first ten questions.

Rules, Conditions, etc:

• Please do NOT ask any questions already posted here: Vote for your favorite question! (UPDATED)
• You must submit the questions to the forum AND the PM linking all the questions to me by no later than Friday, November 16, 2007 12:00 Noon Pacific Standard Time
• Only 1 (one) Private Message with all the links to the "Tougher" questions per poster. Please select carefully.
• Please avoid any "Impossible to Gauge" questions, we don't want the Development Team to wipe the Interview sessions.

Thank you for your support,
AKosygin
FFXIOnline.com Moderation and Administration Team

[Pteryx]

Considering that I expect that we're going to get to ask only three of our questions tops since we'll be competing with other sites for the same interview time by my understanding, I feel the two existing {Incredibly Tough} questions are sufficient. -- Pteryx

[BurningPanther]

I am curious, what IS the limit on number questions submitted to S-E? Is there a ballpark figure?

[Akashimo]

And will there be a live online feed of this to watch?

[Murphie]

"It" "has" "come" "to" "my" "attention" "that" "there" "is" "an" "abuse" "of" "quotation" "marks" "in" "the" "OP."

By that of course, I could mean virtually anything.

[Feba]

Murphie [...] has [...] my [...] abuse [...] marks [...] in [...] the [...] virtual [...] thing.

<-even bigger abuse of "quotes".

[IfritnoItazura]

An aside: Slanted recap from muddled memory

Admin: "Suggest questions we can send to S-E, one question per thread!"
Itazura: "Very sensible!"
Admin: "Here are the questions the Mod Team picked!"
Itazura: "The selection is little odd, but OK... When will we hear back from them?"
Admin: "S-E doesn't care to ans--I mean, we didn't have the right process worked out with them."
Itazura (in his head): "Translation: They rather talk to Bercus instead; we're unimportant."
Itazura (publicly): "That sucks. Go back and make S-E keep its promise to you."
Months later...
Itazura: "Just mothball the sub-forum; it's misleading people to think S-E would answer their questions."
Admin: "We get to ask question in person! Keep using the sub-forum"
Itazura eats his words and chews on his tail.
Moderator: "New thread: put your question in it!"
Itazura: "Wait, didn't we already have a (better) system of one thread per question?"
Moderator: "This is better feedback, and the old system is still valid!"
Itazura (in his head): "Why on earth...? Jamming different questions and discussion together makes it harder to follow, and half of it is just repeating the same questions already in thread form... We don't need two systems. And, why would anyone think this is better? Most likely some good ideas would just get lost in all the chaos."
Admin: "We picked the questions again! This time you get to vote!"
Itazura: "Geez, some of these questions are awful and ill informed, here's why for some of them. BTW, why not involve more knowledgeable people during the picking process?"
Moderator: "Quit complaining--suggest something instead!"
Itazura (in his head): "I did that... I 'suggested' in strong words why some of those questions are moronic..."
Itazura (publicly): "Fine. Here, some existing, better questions, and mostly not mine so you don't think I'm just tooting my own horns."
Admin: "We fixed the questions!"
Itazura stares at the still ignorantly worded Windowed mode question in the poll--almost sent off a flame post until he notices the long version sort of has some merit.
Itazura feels numb.
People: "Why are the questions still so weak?"
Admin: "Deadline extended! Now you PM me and say stuff in public for NEW questions!"
Itazura wonders why we need more questions after months of writing and debating them, and why do we need now THREE different systems of submitting questions for selection--1. post a question thread, 2. reply in poll thread and all-in-one thread, and 3. send PM?
Itazura notices that he whines too much, but doesn't like cheese all that much. Decides his time is better spent on figuring out what to do with his Jobs guide instead, and convincing his sister to buy more taro flavored bread for him.

[Feba]

Wait, Ita has a sister?

[Murphie]

You know, Feba, I really do have the abuse marks in the virtual thing.

And well put, Itazura. I share your frustration, but I've decided it's not worth making a fuss about it, because clearly it's not going to affect any change. Which sucks.

[LyonheartLakshmi]

Originally Posted by Pteryx

Considering that I expect that we're going to get to ask only three of our questions tops since we'll be competing with other sites for the same interview time by my understanding, I feel the two existing {Incredibly Tough} questions are sufficient. -- Pteryx

And what if the other sites "scoop" us with similar questions first? Might be good to have a list of back ups.

[AKosygin]

I do not expect to go through all 15 questions submitted so far..... at least, not in the time allotted unless they give us all "We will look into that" answers.

[Ziero]

Originally Posted by IfritnoItazura

An aside: Slanted recap from muddled memory

Admin: "Suggest questions we can send to S-E, one question per thread!"
Itazura: "Very sensible!"
Admin: "Here are the questions the Mod Team picked!"
Itazura: "The selection is little odd, but OK... When will we hear back from them?"
Admin: "S-E doesn't care to ans--I mean, we didn't have the right process worked out with them."
Itazura (in his head): "Translation: They rather talk to Bercus instead; we're unimportant."
Itazura (publicly): "That sucks. Go back and make S-E keep its promise to you."
Months later...
Itazura: "Just mothball the sub-forum; it's misleading people to think S-E would answer their questions."
Admin: "We get to ask question in person! Keep using the sub-forum"
Itazura eats his words and chews on his tail.
Moderator: "New thread: put your question in it!"
Itazura: "Wait, didn't we already have a (better) system of one thread per question?"
Moderator: "This is better feedback, and the old system is still valid!"
Itazura (in his head): "Why on earth...? Jamming different questions and discussion together makes it harder to follow, and half of it is just repeating the same questions already in thread form... We don't need two systems. And, why would anyone think this is better? Most likely some good ideas would just get lost in all the chaos."
Admin: "We picked the questions again! This time you get to vote!"
Itazura: "Geez, some of these questions are awful and ill informed, here's why for some of them. BTW, why not involve more knowledgeable people during the picking process?"
Moderator: "Quit complaining--suggest something instead!"
Itazura (in his head): "I did that... I 'suggested' in strong words why some of those questions are moronic..."
Itazura (publicly): "Fine. Here, some existing, better questions, and mostly not mine so you don't think I'm just tooting my own horns."
Admin: "We fixed the questions!"
Itazura stares at the still ignorantly worded Windowed mode question in the poll--almost sent off a flame post until he notices the long version sort of has some merit.
Itazura feels numb.
People: "Why are the questions still so weak?"
Admin: "Deadline extended! Now you PM me and say stuff in public for NEW questions!"
Itazura wonders why we need more questions after months of writing and debating them, and why do we need now THREE different systems of submitting questions for selection--1. post a question thread, 2. reply in poll thread and all-in-one thread, and 3. send PM?
Itazura notices that he whines too much, but doesn't like cheese all that much. Decides his time is better spent on figuring out what to do with his Jobs guide instead, and convincing his sister to buy more taro flavored bread for him.

First off, it's not three systems. The Original system was put in place so that people could post up their ideas for questions with little restrictions. From there, the best questions were selected by the Admins and mods of this site, aligned in a poll and submited to the community for the purpose of selecting the best of the best and further discussion of the Admin's choices. Infact that concept was posted in the original instructions for the Ask SE forum guidlines, though it was notibly altered slightly to fit into the Fan Fest's interview setup.

Originally Posted by AKosygin

• The Moderation and Administration Team of FFXIOnline.com will select 9 questions to be compiled on to a list. The last remaining one is reserved for the moderation and administration team.
• The list will be compiled and submitted to the FFXI Community Relations Team, and the submitted list will also be posted on the news section for discussion, and if the FFXIOnline.com team find later that we missed any questions, we will tack it onto the next month's list.handed out as appropriate.

During that discussion, some people felt the ones asked weren't of higher quality so the Admin gave everyone a last minute chance to ask 'better' questions while having them PM him directly so he doesn't miss any of these 'better' questions. I don't know about you, but it seems to me that the guys in charge are doing the best they can to make sure their community has their best questions asked.