Since we re-launched Question of the Day last May, the column has become more and more popular – in fact, we've had several reports that it's actually "addictive," although these claims remain unproven scientifically. And it's not just Las Vegas visitors and locals who are tuning in each day; we also get feedback from a surprising but gratifying number of industry insiders, including some pretty senior dudes. In fact, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who have contributed to QoD, both the readers who write in to embellish our answers with their personal experiences and the numerous representatives from the casino, entertainment, and tourist industries, government agencies, local businesses, and the huge roster of miscellaneous sources who've helped us with our research over the past year or so. Please find a list below, which we hope is pretty comprehensive and will undoubtedly continue to grow.
Looking back at the records, we can confirm that this time last year, on average we received one or two new questions each day, with a four- or five-question day registering as a monster! These days, the average is more like 15 new questions a day, and daily submissions numbering in the high 20s isn’t unusual. On a day when we've run a readers' poll, it's common to get 80+ responses, plus high figures for the days following, as replies keep rolling in.
As far as the unanswered backlog is concerned, it's just too scary to look at! With upwards of fifteen new questions coming in on a daily basis and only one getting answered, it's already huge. Also, it gets bigger by the day, because although we can only run them one at a time, we store most incoming questions. The majority of them are valid and worthy of an answer at some point, either in this forum or elsewhere in LVA or on the Web site.
In terms of those questions that won’t ever see the dark of print on account of being instantly filed in the trash, they tend to fall into the following categories: utterly incomprehensible; previously addressed; too silly to consider; offensive to LVA staff or others; too personal/marginal to address in a public forum; too broad/labor-intensive to answer in a daily column; too subjective to tackle conclusively or on subjects that we're not qualified to comment on; random queries that bare no relevance to Las Vegas or gambling; appeals requesting help with scams; and those that are just plain too boring to contemplate.
Luckily, we don't get many of these types and are sorry only that we can't answer more of the great questions we receive. But at the risk of offending the submitters, here are a few examples of QoDs that we have received but that you won't find answered here anytime in the near future:
Other jettisoned questions include those asking us to interpret dreams, gambling or otherwise (we have fun with th
