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For a personality quiz, what do you guys feel is a decent amount of questions? 15? 20?

Any pet peeves about quizzes? Any questions you just really can't stand to see on there?

Anything you wish people would do in their quizzes?

Please and thank you.  
 

Any kind of quiz where the results are obviously biased to the authors opinions.

I think the longer the better, both for the results and because it makes the quiz look more professional(unless the questions are stupid.) q:

Do something different. Make a quiz with at least 1 feature that most other quizzes don't have. Question amount is less important, but more than 10.

I don't know about inside the quiz itself. I'm going for "out of the box" or at the very least, non cliche questions. I have 25 now. Some of it's personal preference, some of it's moral choices, a little of it is philosophically based, exc. I'm going to offer profile badges (which I haven't seen in any other quiz here yet, but I really don't think it's unique,) but I'm not sure what features I can add beyond that.

I will admit, though ... if I finish the companion story, the quiz would be a good way to help ease the reader into the world, and help them decide who to be / which story path to take, (though any choice beyond the initial would be up to them.)
 

I'd say somewhere in the range of 10 to 30 questions is good.

As for questions I don't want to see... "You come to a crossroads. Do you go left or right?" Making people choose between left and right with no information about what happens in each direction is annoying in any case, but why people do it in personality quizzes, I'll never understand. 

Other than that, I'd say try to avoid questions with a clear "good" and "bad" answer. Generally, if people find a $10 bill on the side of the road, most people would keep it. Still, if you asked the question, "You find a $10 bill on the side of the road. Do you keep it, or try to fid the person who owns it and give it back?" a lot of people would probably say that they'd try to give it back, because they know that's the "good" answer, and they like to think they're "good" people.

Giving people a scenario asking, "How would you deal with this situation?" and giving a list of answers that demonstrate different personality traits would be a better way to go about it. I'm sure you can figure out some good questions ^_^

This is great advice!

25 now and... actually, yeah, I hate questions that are nonsensical like that. Yes, I made a few where there's no clear cut right answer out of the bunch.

I hate questions that make it really obvious what the result of the test will be.

It's like those quizzes that go "What colour are you?", and the questions are like:

How would you describe yourself?

• Calm
• Passionate
• Nature lover
• Wealthy

Where the link to the colour is really obvious.

But would calm be blue or green?

Nature lover would be green :P

Right. Blue it is. Though there is more blue nature than green nature.....

OMG BUT THE GRASSssssss

Nature as an element tends to refer just to plant-life.

lol yes, I'm aware.

Frankly, unless there are way more MTG fans on here than I thought, I highly doubt any one is going to automatically guess what they're getting. Besides, I like being vague and keeping people on their toes. (The puzzles in GOLAD should prove that people can't always guess what the hell I'm thinking.)

15 is not nearly enough in my opinion. 

Well, I hate those ultra-generic personality types that everyone fits in regardless of his answers (kinda like how the Zodiac descriptions are so generic you'll find yourself in all of them).

You need to have people's skills to make a good personality quiz.

As far as questions go, I hate ones with black and white answers like:

You find a young boy in the street who lost his mommy, do you:

a) Help it find his mom
b) Ignore him
c) Adopt him
d) Rape him

If I was going to do a question like that, which is too obvious as to what it says about you, then it wouldn't be "will you find his mom" ... it would be "how would you find his mother?" because your methods would at least give insight into the way you think rather than superficial morality.

That's the spirit.