[karl.ucb]

Hi everyone! I’m a student at UC Berkeley, and I’m working on a research project about forums. I know EMU is a really active and engaged community, so I thought it would be a good place to try to get some data.

A big part of the project is collecting a ton of data about what people think about the forums that they use; hence my post… Sorry if this seems a little spammy. Feel free to ignore.

If you are interested in helping me out, please fill out my short survey: Online Forum and Community Survey. It is short and sweet.

Thanks, Karl

 

[masta.g.86]

Berkley, huh? GTFO.

 

[karl.ucb]

yup. go bears!

 

[Cid Highwind]

Project Berkley rocked, you got my support.


3. How many times do you visit this forum in an average month?
/me looks for the infinity sign

*on a staff notice, it is spammy, yes, but since it's educational I'll leave it open. I do hope you'll drop by to let know the results.

 

[Proto]

Survey design feedback:

Providing drop down box menus in those questions which require a number is often a better idea than leaving an open question field. It is less tiring to the user.

 

[gamefreak94]

Question #5 has a small typo, the third options says "Yes, I have made many fiends" Should be friends.....:doh:

Project Berkley rocked, you got my support.


3. How many times do you visit this forum in an average month?
/me looks for the infinity sign

You can't input a value in it which is greater then 2 digits!.....Immediate correction needed

 

[-StrikE-]

^It worked for me to input 3 digits.

 

[gamefreak94]

Didn't for me. I inputted 500 initially (and that's true ), but it returned an error saying "The value must be a whole number" (oO) so I thought this was the case and dropped it to 99 after which it worked.

 

[Ahielia]

Yes, that question was a bit mind boggling at first.

I tried inputting "999", but it wouldn't accept it. So I removed 2 of the digits
Answered the rest of the questions truthfully though.

 

[ElijahTW]

The survey seems geared a bit too much towards casual forum visitors, something along the lines of a 40 year old woman visiting a parent forum, and not towards the 'hardcore forum users' you'll find here.

 

[verboten999]

And then there's one

 

[karl.ucb]

thanks to everyone that completed the survey and to those of you with feedback (i upped the max potential visits per month to 1000, which is 30+ visits per day).

if you haven't completed the survey yet, i could still use your help. here's the link again if you have a few free minutes: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=dsa6tPKuuYjOzHJBi7ZJQg_3d_3d

 

[Ahielia]

which is 30+ visits per day).

Depends what you call a "visit" though.

I often keep Opera running in the background, and occasionally tabbing out of a game to check some new threads.
If each of those times is a new visit, I visit most sites hundreds of times a day