This riddle shiuld be easy.
I am a common means of disguise.
A dark shadow to cover your eyes.
The brightest orb which rules the sky,
Poses a need to look like a spy.
What am I?
Back when this was originally posted though, there were no objections. On this thread, we originally got a score of +25/-0 - completely unanimous, which we had never seen before. The objections started pouring in after it was implemented (exactly as promised, in this thread). In any case, it's temporary - we may lift the moratorium soon. — Deusovi ♦2 hours ago
If I'd been here when it was originally posted, I would've posted that same answer with pretty much the same list of objections pre-emptively. In fact, I haven't spent much time looking at how it's actually worked in practice, as you can probably tell from my remarks about riddles posted there with solutions. The fact that objections have been pouring in after it's been implemented kinda confirms that there are problems which maybe you guys didn't see coming.
It's good to hear that nearly everything is getting through. Have you done any statistical analysis, or isn't there really enough data yet to work with?
I'd be interested in seeing the proportion of riddles from respected users which get through vs the proportion of those from new users, and whether I was right in predicting an in-crowd effect.
Well, two of them are "failed" because the user who posted them had their account deleted.
One failed is a one-liner from a 276 rep user. One failed is someone who went on a rant using abusive language, and posted it in the sandbox (but it got sorted out). One was retracted due to it not actually being a riddle.
@Deusovi Could use a CW post (or the Sandbox account) to post those on the main site anyway, if they got enough score after the account was deleted. It seems a shame to waste good riddles just because the person who posted them got deleted.
There are currently 4 with a negative score: one deleted user, one that would immediately be closed as too broad, one that's nearly purely trivia, and one... other one.
So is it because newer users tend to post worse riddles, or because there's a perception that newbie riddles tend to be crap and people only upvote riddles from people they 'trust'?
A dangerous spiting cover that becomes flammable
An anagram riddle
Be careful I'm dangerous, left how I'm read
Without my first letter I know how to spit it
Switch my middle letters and I'm used as a cover
Leave me as a cover and take away my last letter and I'm flammable
What am I?
@Deusovi Ugh. That sounds like one of those 'classical' riddles which is really more like a lateral thinking problem. The best riddles are much longer than that and clearly enough specified that there's only one right answer.
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