SporcleReviews 44

There are 15 published quizzes daily. 11 of the 15 users who received published quizzes today (5-19-24) are listed below:
El_Dandy (admin, 906th publish)
Kjeverhart (curator)
Hejman (moderator, editor)
Johncenafan612 (curator)
FilipinoBreloom (curator)
Purple_Parrot (editor)
Knightlancer (curator)
Justindi01 (curator)
Mucciniale (curator)
Metakoopa99 (curator)
Tasi (curator)

There is major favoritism when it comes to publishing, it's always the same people. It's gotten to the point where I recognize user names just from the 15 quizzes that are published daily. I like the site though, I think they should give other people a chance.

I enjoy the site but there is an annoying user who is a wannabe admin or staff member. This user is always responding to posts in the Report a Problem group, but is not an admin or staff member. It's annoying. I like the site though.

https://www.sporcle.com/user/RotherhamAndrea/

The worst part of the site are the showdown cheaters, but I know there's nothing they can do about that. It's obvious someone cheats when you got 2 answers correct and your opponent has 2 answers correct on a minefield quiz and I got the third answer incorrect so the quiz ended for me. I watched and they just sat there for a minute or so and then magically got the next answer correct and then ended the showdown. They probably opened the quiz on another device and found the answer and then entered it. Just a hunch, but that's what it seemed like. There's no point in reporting the user because there is no proof. It's sad though the lengths people will go to just to win a showdown. I just block them so I won't get them again in a showdown.

Mark did a great job on the trivia for our daughter's wedding shower! Everyone had a ball and I heard from many of the guests on how fun it was. He was funny and professional. A couple of weeks before te event, they collected questions from the bride and groom to make a custom trivia game which our guests loved. Mark was a great host and I would definitely use Sporcle again for future events. Great job!

Since Sporcle reduced the number of new badges per week from three to one, they should make them a little more challenging to earn. This week's badge is weak, playing 25 slideshow quizzes in one hour isn't that challenging.

Sporcle is a great way of entertainment for those that enjoy taking quizzes fun and even a way of studying. There's quizzes for just about everything - music, art, geography, etc. If you're planning to or are taking geography, sporcle is a great way for knowing the location of landmarks and countries. Would recommend, especially if you are a student that is taking some sort of geography course.

I enjoy the site but I think curators and editors should lose that position on the site if they create quizzes and never update them if a change needs to be made. I write this because I have played two quizzes by the same curator where there are incorrect answers on the quizzes. The curator is not responsive to comments in the comment section pointing out these errors. One of the quizzes is even a curator pick and still has a question that needs to be updated.

Enough with the powered by admiral pop-up begging users to turn off their ad-blocker. Users wouldn't have to used an ad-blocker if the ads weren't so intrusive that Sporcle uses. They cover content completely and sometimes you can't even close them. Using an ad-blocker is the only choice if you don't want to pay to upgrade to Sporcle Orange. I had to re-load the Sporcle page at least 10 times to get the admiral pop-up to stop appearing over a quiz.

Sporcle is an absolutely wonderful time sink. There are quizzes on literally any topic conceivable. It's been great as a memorization tool for long lists, and some of the quizmakers are super creative. The main complaint I've always seen is ads, ads, ads. Admittedly, the ads were pretty bad at one point, but they've done better at scaling them back to less intrusive less annoying ones. It's a free site (with no ads for paid members). The community is wonderful to interact with as well.
Admins have been incredibly responsive to any issues I've had, and has always tried to make it right.
All in all, it's been an effective learning tool and a time sink I don't feel too guilty about.

You get accused of cheating when your a new name on the leaderboards amongst the usual sad suspects who spend every second they have on the site. I don't see the point in having features like badges, levels and leadership boards if only the moderator's favourites are allowed to use them. It's a site full idiots if I'm honest and aa previous reviews state if your not in their cliche they will constantly give you time outs and reports until your gone from there one way or another, myself I opted to call them all pathetic $#*!s and delete my profile

The daily showdown leaderboards have been ruined by users who just play the same quick pick quiz showdown against bots all day long. There is a user who is #1 right now with 461 wins. If you look at the user showdown plays, the user plays the same quick quizzes over and over again against the Sporcle bot all day long. Where is the fun in that? I think the daily leaderboard should be for unique plays that day.

To many ads, cause lag and performance issues, crash the browser mid games - not well thought out ads either. Big L on this website now

I think getting 100% on certain quizzes to earn a badge is a bit much. For example: getting 100% on Harry Potter Top 200 to earn the Order of Merlin, First Class badge. Who really knows all of the top 200 characters in the Harry Potter series by number of mentions without looking the answers up? (which defeats the purpose) If you do know them all without looking the answers up, it's actually sad.:-)

To me the point of having showdowns and leaderboards is for those who enjoy competition. When the user the_destroyer98 changes his settings daily so he doesn't appear #1 on the daily showdown leaderboard until towards the end of the day, it ruins the fun of it. It's sad that being #1 on the site is that important to him. You can't try to win against someone who hides their plays daily, until the end of the day, and then changes their privacy settings to where their name appears. It is truly sad. This user has been doing this for years. He may be #1 every day at the end of the day, but when you have to go to those lengths to make sure no one gets ahead of you, it is truly sad and you really haven't won. What a sad existence.

https://www.sporcle.com/user/the_destroyer98/

I don't understand where some people have got one star from. Sporcle is a huge site full of free quizzes made by the community. You can also make your own quiz full of stuff you are interested in but are not already on Sporcle. Great site with great quizzes. It is also free to play meaning there is no downside to enjoy some quizzes.

There's a certain user who is constantly writing comments in the quiz comments section about Chloe Grace Moretz. It's completely adolescent and annoying.