Matt, god willing I ever get any time I'll work at a chronological wrap-up of the past ones for you and just hand it off to you to insert. Personally I think if they can run side-by-side both ways that'd be ideal of course, but it's really up to you and good work either way it goes. It's your project and we're not going to jump in on it really...
Jon, your questions (they're more or less deviating from the current discussion I thin, Matt) go like this:
- When are the questions submitted for the week's round of questions?
We submit questions every Friday for the following week, and this is the format at every site out there. We get the answers the same day if I'm not mistaken (for THAT week's round).
- Are they(questions to hasbro) all submitted or is there some kind of 'cool guy' editing process?
We pick the questions each week ourselves, as there are limits set by Hasbro.
- If the former question is a yes answer then who is selecting the questions presented to Hasbro?
No single staffer hand picks anything, it's pretty much collaborative by us all, just chiming in on what we think is good for this particular week or whatnot.
- Is there an equal opportunity method for question selection?
As opposed to? We get questions in and we just weed through looking for what we think are the best and send them off.
- If there is a quota for how many questions can be asked per week and we're over it with good, edited questions, do those that miss out fall off for good or are they revisited again in coming weeks as possible questions?
There is a limit... Some sites have been abusing it and asking more than we were told we were allowed to ask (we've tried to respect Hasbro's guidelines, others clearly have been asking more though). The Q&A thread's q's for any given week aren't deleted or anything, they're still there and potentially up for asking too... Bearing in mind however that we do keep our eyes on what other sites are asking and things, and try to adjust ours accordingly to avoid duplication and such, and to get out the questions to Hasbro we think they'll A) Answer in the first place, and B) that really are asking something tough of them that the collectors deserve answered.
IE: We won't ask about playsets, vehicles, etc... Some places are asking about them still, but the "point" of it is moot at this point and it's a waste of an answered Q. We look things over pretty closely though to dig up the best Q set we can for each week and so far I think we've done fairly well considering some of the Q's (and their A's) we've read around the various sites.
