Hi Pat,& Boatshed, I think I have figured it out!!! 😠🙄😜.....
Every day you loose a dash from the right-hand side of your score as a new question appears on the left. You have to get all questions right for a number of times to get rid of the red dashes, or the missed questions.🙄
So in my case of today, 25th July, I have to get all the question right for 12 or 13 days before the red dash drops off the list.🙄 Then I will hopefully go up a notch.
In your case, Pat, you have to get 5 or 6 right to move up the line. 😁.That's when you will loose a red dash off the list. Hope it makes a bit more sense now ??
If I'm using my computer, I can see the dashed lines easy, but on my old smart phone I even have trouble seeing some of the questions. Like the one ages ago when I miss read STEM when it was actually STERN and one of the answers was something about supporting the rudder on. I read it over a few times before I realized it said stern 🤓, need to go back to Specsavers, I think 😜.

I don’t understand the scoring either, no matter how many times they try to explain it.
It goes right over my head.
So it’s you and me both, I suppose there are others that also do not get it as well.
I seem to get 2 or 3 correct then I get at least one or two wrong.

I just seem to hover around the same place on the list and the same sort of % ratings.
So yes it’s a real pain in the butt.

I still cant understand this bloody scoring system - must be AI and programed by someone that tries to bite you in the a*rse when you are doing well. Some of the question I cant see what use the knowledge would be to a professional seafarer let alone a model maker.

Oh dear I have already entered today"!!! Not!
Roy

I thought resistance is futile then realised that was startrek 😊

Perhaps AI is not that Intelligent after all 😂😂😂😊

If I'm not mistaken, this question came up a while ago.

Today's question had me confused as I have been to Bristol floating dock which has lock gates. Only the bit about ship repair led me to the answer but surely the lock gate answer is also correct in view of Bristol.

Wow, we are now into commercial fishing and conservation, good thing I watch tv 🤔

AlessandroSPQR,
Sadly, it seems that negative lessons are the only way we learn. ( see: USA)
Cheers all.

Nick and TD, you've thought of a fitting example. Unfortunately, it's a negative one, but it's very fitting.

I guess they tried to innovate, moving forward into a new age, pandering to "modern" aesthetics without fully understanding the complex metallurgy involved..

Nickthesteam,
Your comment is exactly what jumped into my mind when I read this question. The second question I had was why that reasoning was missed by de Havilland?
I guess that water and air don't mix, at least not the engineers😂😂😂

The D H Comet design flaw springs to mind...

This isn't actually as straightforward a question as it might seem.
As we mentioned a few months ago for another topic, it's also important to consider that the circle has the smallest ratio of perimeter to area.

Probably like gob stoppers - health and safety hazard😁😁

I agree and bad as that was a stark reminder of tragedy at sea.

On land an earlier incident is the one that today still makes me go cold and come out in persperation. The night of the Branston pickle factory fire was an Englishman's worst nightmare! It led to panic buying on an unheard of scale. Reportedly the sale of Branston pickle went from 460 jars per week to 25000 jars in a matter of days. Many people came from near and far to help and production resumed 3 weeks later.

The date was the 27th. October 2004 also my dad's birthday, fortunately he never lived to see it for which the family is grateful.

I am also worried to see that Epicure's pickled walnuts were not on the shelves of our local supermarket. I will have to ration myself until they come back.

Life as we know it may soon fade away with these possible losses, after all what ever happened to OK sauce? These are the real "Question of the day"
I say no more.
Roy

Remember 'Costa Concordia' 😉

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Hi Lucky duck, I have done obscure and a lot is much clearer now especially since my cataract operations.
There are always side issues that we do not need to know as someone else elects themselves into our obscure for their tomorrow. Trust is the most important thing, with the world always trying work out what to believe against what some would have us believe.

The chances of me having to make the wreck decision is so remote it is beyond my vision, so perhaps not obscure but definitely distant and even obnubilated and distant.

Roy, (perhaps washed ashore but not yet wrecked).

Roy, often the obscure helps us all learn - maybe not very useful at our scales, but expands our knowledge and one day you may just need that obscure piece of knowledge?

Pat get tomorrow's question right and you will go up3%.👍👍👍😁😁

Roy

Getting obscure again!
I used logic to answer the question, not having wrecks left in our pond, but this would be the course of action if they were!
Roy

I didn't know there are "perks" for subscribing. I do it to support the running costs of the site...

They say you learn something every day, well I have.
When I subscribed I did it to support the cost of the site. I know how much web hosting costs, even for a small site.
I did not look at the added benefits this gave.
🙈

Alesandro is right but has the negative the wrong way round and it says somewhere that this is a privilege for bronze and above.

It does highlight another point and that is financial contribution to the running of the web site!
Roy

Hi Edw, the screenshot SimpleSailor attached should clear up any doubts. It's a payment issue. You can't see it because you're a bronze member, not a basic member. If you have a basic account (for example, a friend's), you can see for yourself. Currently, all basic members, even with the best PC in the world and a fantastic internet connection, can't see questions from previous days, simply because of a forum rule.

Hi Guys. The ability to see past questions is certainly to do with if you pay or not. I do not pay a monthly fee, but on occasion give a donation. It clearly says that you can only see past questions if you pay. However when I have donated I have NOT been able to see past questions. I was going to complain but life is too short 😁

Hi Alessandro, I doubt if it is paid or unpaid but it could be due to the browser you are using. Actions of Code in a web page can vary from browser to browser. This is one of the biggest headaches to coders in web development.
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The Venetian lagoon? wasn't there a movie made made about that place. The Creature From The Black Lagoon?
I certainly would not swim in it.....🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hi Edw, hi Austin.
I don't think it's what Edw says.
It's a paid privilege.
The reality (if I'm wrong, the more attentive and experienced members will correct me) is that Edw can view and answer questions from past days.
Austin can't; he can only see and answer the current day's question.
This is because Edw is a bronze member while Austin isn't.
Those who don't pay don't have this privilege.
Austin, can you see questions from past days?
I don't think so.

Thank you

To go back to a date can be a slow process if the date is way back. Above the current question is a series of date tabs, click on the left most one and they will scroll across. Keep doing that till you see one that is grey. Click on it and that days question will appear.
Good luck🤞

Hi Edw, How do you go back to that day for unanswered questions

I'm glad I knew Janet's dive fast or it would have been a guess today

Hi Roy, the grey dash is an unanswered question, you can go back to that day and answer the question and the grey will hopefully go green and up your standing.😁

Hi Ed but usually I wait maybe 10 seconds and watch it update. Is this a possible reason why because the page did not update we have what becomes an unanswered question? I have a grey dash working its way across,
Roy

Roy, web pages do not update automatically, the require input to force an update. Clicking in the grey would provide that type of stimulus.
Refreshing the page would achieve this as well.

Interesting! I got the question right but it still registered unanswered, I waited but still a grey dash. I clicked on the grey dash and it changed to answered and the score increased.
Roy

Twitching now is it?

Good old David Attenborough helps again with this one 👍 😀..
I only got involved with the question of the day because I spent ages reading all the amusing and very funny comments that had been posted about the quiz 😂😀 so I thought that I had better join in.
And, it is only fun ...

Point well put !! I do wonder if I take it too seriously !! I do find some of the questions very obsure though and the ones I do get right sometimes it a pprocess of illimination rather than knowing the answer straight away

Spare a thought Pat for these poor people who seem to have no green days in their life. Not sure what causes a grey day, other than the weather 😁

Bloody hell - I thought we was playing a game of nautical knowledge not snakes and ladders lol

Hi Pat the scoring is right. You still have to get rid of 5 incorrect answers before you can reach 100%
Roy

I am sure whoever designed this Algorithm needs to look at it again - for the last seven days I have not got a question wrong but I have gone down the ladder on each day - I rest my case about relying on computers and the internet

The dolphin structures, a new one for me, it seemed like there were 3 dodgy answers and so I went for piles! Ouch!
Roy

Yet another no brainer.
Wow! I’m on a roll.

Hi Jump,
Re "Sounds like a good build idea some day. "
Go for it Jump👍
Would make a great Action addition to your magnificent freighter.
Or are you planning to build a tanker?
Cheers, Doug😎

Tell me about it Ed😉
With my 6' 2" I learned that the hard way very early on!🤕

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Doug, that makes two for us but then the higher you are the harder you fall 🤣