I stumbled upon Quizilla back in when it was still at its very humble origins. There were so many fun quizzes to take, some that were very original and oh-my-god-those-picture-results-are-awes ome kinds of things. If you guys have ever been on Quizilla, you know what I'm talking about.
It was one of the first and most popular ones of its kind, written by icemakesyoumelt, who became famous on Quizilla at the time. Needless to say, when I read it, I fell in love with that type of story.
I quickly sought more and was delighted to find that many people were writing you-plusrandom-supernatural-guys stories like icemakesyoumelt and my favorites list promptly filled up. Keep in mind, I was 12 years old the perfect age to get trapped into that fad , and had typical pre-teen self-esteem issues, especially after my mother had me cut my hair short so that I could be mistaken for a lanky boy also making me weep over my flat chest.
It was pretty sickening, I can tell you. The vampire fad came in next, with Lestat in tow this was pre-Twilight after all , then the anime ones dear God, Shesshomaru I'm sorreeeeeeh I had about When I was about 14, I grew out of it, thankfully. I became bored with Quizilla, and trying to churn out fics in timed demand with my readers' whims.
And then, a year later, I discovered Deleterius on Livejournal. It was making fun of the exact kind of stuff I used to read and gobble up like a typical tween it makes me cringe, oh God, it does!
I don't spork fics as often as I should, but I do my best. For a time YOU were important in a non-physical place and you learned so much there. Now, you are older and wiser and braver. You are ready to take on the world as it is. Feel proud of yourself and all that you've done. When the world beats you down, you can think of all of your fondest memories.
Go ahead. Reminisce those great "Glory Days" of the fine, fun Quizilla that Matthew Nielsen originally created for us. Like so many of the able things that have happened in our lives; Quizilla is just as if not more of a fond memory for our impressionable minds as we age into successful people.
And when you've returned to your happiest state, you can move forward and be the most amazing you that you can be. I'm a little sad. All those stories I read, all the stories I wrote, poof. September : It has 40 servers. This figure does not include images, which can often surpass 10 million daily If you go to the homepage of Quizilla. On most days over 1,, quizzes are taken, 5, new quizzes are created and up to 2, people join the site as new members.
Jump to: navigation , search. Quizilla is what I like to call a quiz foundry. What that means in real terms is that it's a place to make Internet quizzes and also a place to take them. It encapsulates and automates all the things needed to make the sort of quizzes that are all the rage with the kids these days. Quizilla is a place to imagine, create and share great content. It started out, as the name suggests, as a place to make, take and share the results of quizzes.
In its over 3 year life, it has grown beyond just quizzes. It now is a leading home on the Web for stories, poems and other user generated content. Whether you want to create, take and share quizzes, a personal journal, write poems, stories, create and share games and more.
Quizilla has it all. It represents and embodies the heartbeat of today's teen spirit. To this day I still don't understand why people would write fanfiction on a site whose specific purpose is quizzes when there are fanfiction-specific sites around! Why would you want your fanfiction cluttered up with question numbers and checkboxes and submit buttons?
When it wasn't even a choose your own adventure story? I don't understand either, especially since the quiz-editor that was used from was really not good for anything more than than a few lines of text per question and only one line per answer. I wonder if teenage girls new to fan fiction know that term, or if it's specific to people who discovered fan fiction on sites like Quizilla and fanfiction.
I will go one step further: I started the site in August and it wasn't until probably late that I learned what that meant. A whole year of blissful ignorance. The automatic filters got better and we later added volunteer moderators to seek it out and remove it, and that helped a bunch, but I can guarantee that people found ways around all of it.
When you're young, you've got two never-ending resources: tenacity and time. What does the name Quizilla mean? Are you in any way affiliated with Godzilla? No, in no way. Quizilla is in no way affiliated with Godzilla or the owner of its trademark, Toho Co. Announcing Quizilla. It's just one of those weird ideas that you get. After I slapped together my last weird idea about a uniform specification for Quizzes and Tests, I had the idea that "what if there was a program that built these definition files for you?
A hare-brained concept, maybe, but it's here and it's available. It's free and I think it's a pretty cool package. You register, you make a quiz and give the link to your friends. No javascript or programming experience required. If you like making or taking quizzes, take a peek. I have an ego. But I'm sure it will pass. Where did you get the idea for Quizilla? The ides for Quizilla came to me when I was looking at ideas for expressing complex data structures in XML. I was mulling around the idea of a standardized format for quizzes and other things and I decided to make some CGI code to automate the idea for me.
Then I decided to build more complex display layers around that core, and then I added user accounts, messages and everything else you see now. How is Quizilla supported? Is it supported by advertising? Right now, yes, Quizilla is supported completely by advertising revenue.
Take Quizilla for example. The costs of the site are very straightforward and follow what you could call "the three B's": bandwidth, brawn, and brains. Bandwidth is, obviously, how much it costs to get the data from the computer for the Web site to your home computer. Brawn is the computers that run the Web site. Brains is the people behind the Web site. If any one of those three things as lacking, the site as a whole will lag.
If you can't pay for bandwidth then people can't see your web site. If you can't pay for computers then people can't use your web site. If you can't pay for the brains to run the web site then problems will never be fixed, features will never be added and it will become stale and no one will ever want to come back. And each of these things costs money and the more popular the site gets, the more money they cost.
I want to buy Quizilla! Of course, those are merely starting suggestions. People still use Quizilla, like, all the time. That staggered me. Someone has been updating it's page to have a play-by-play of all the outages, issues and problems. That staggered me some more. Under a new name of course. RIP quizilla you trashiest of fic bearing sites you. And no matter how frustrated I get with the lack of quality writing on quizilla, I have to remember the most of the authors are young kids who don't know the first thing about grammar or punctuation, much less telling a good story!
I figure it's better for them to TRY than to not write at all. They'll improve. One last thing, I've been on Quizilla for over six years now. I've seen it go completely downhill. I tell you, I've seen a lot of angry rants about everything, from the quality of the stories to the site itself. I just usually roll my eyes at them, but I must admit, I really like yours.
It's not just some angry rant criticizing every little thing you hate about Quizilla. You've actually got ways and tips that the authors can help improve their stories.
I don't know if a lot of other people on Quizilla will read this, too, but I honestly hope that they do. O 3O It's really a shame Quizilla's changed to how it currently is. Those great writers whose stories I loved probably left many years ago when the site was upgraded to its new look.
They're still in that stage where it's cool to write "lyke d! Admittedly, everyone used to write the giant, and rather shameful wall of text. Never did get a reply back This quiz has been taken times.
Mullit said:. KeeperofKeys Guest. That quiz is so easy to throw because of its obvious question leanings. You are Grom Hellscream Willing to go to hell and back literaly! I think thats cool i used to love Grom Hellscream before O Bored DM Cross You want to see a magic trick? Staff member. You are Illidan! Kind of evil, but incredibly cool. I wonder if I need to start worrying about you people. After all, if so many of you are evil it might rub off on little old me heh heh Anyway, it would be nice if someone invested the time to make a better quiz like that.
If you do, please be sure to post a thread about it on TH. I would love to take it. One more thing: if you are of the test-taking bent rather than the test making bent, then you might want to visit www. The only problem is that there are some losers in there with the good ones. Oh well. Such is life. ReVolver Moderator Staff member. Case in point. I am Illidan. Freeplay New Member.
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