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jonathan
#1 posted January 9, 2000 at 10:12am (EST)  


bill: Exactly.

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jonathan
#2 posted January 8, 2000 at 6:02pm (EST)  

I'd like there to be an option for survey creators to withdraw a survey, especially for anonymous surveys.

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jonathan
#3 posted January 4, 2000 at 11:03am (EST)  

The survey http://surveycentral.org/survey/3363.html isn't coming up for me. I'm seeing the Survey Central/ad/logged in as jonathan bar, then my survey selectors and the New Survey/Search/etc. bar, and then Netscape finishes downloading and no survey appears.

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jonathan
#4 posted December 28, 1999 at 5:19pm (EST)  

Bill - if there's a select distinct() in MySQL that should let easily display the actual number of votes for the +/- display.

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jonathan
#5 posted December 10, 1999 at 4:08pm (EST)  

One other bit o' feedback re: the qualification system. I'd like to see flawed, unqualified surveys that haven't been fixed in some period of time (maybe one to two weeks?) to become anonymous surveys.

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jonathan
#6 posted December 9, 1999 at 11:49pm (EST)  

Ads: Oh well, they were going to happen someday. From a graphic design standpoint, I wouldn't mind seeing the banner better integrated with the rest of the SC UI, which IMO is one of the best-designed ones around.


Qualification system: I'd like to see ideas regarding display/sorting/filtering unqualified surveys such as those you posited in the feedback to ILJ implemented at some point. I haven't used SC in a few days, and there are a bunch of unqualified surveys. I'd specifically like to see how many ok votes, how many flawed votes, when last modified by the creator, and have the display sorted with no-flawed votes first. Ideally there'd be a "new comments" total as well, but I think the first set of stuff would help me find the surveys I haven't voted on as well as other ones of interest.


Bill's bank account: I'd happily pay $10/year for SC, getting rid of ads would be a side-benefit.

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jonathan
#7 posted November 29, 1999 at 5:04pm (EST)  

Bill: Thanks for a long & thoughtful response. I'll be curious to see what the impression is over time. In any case, part of my regular (averaging somewhat more than once per day) use of SC is knowing that there is new content to see, with the number of new surveys dropping I'd expect my use to go down which could then have a negative feedback loop over time.

Brian: I did take a look at your surveys and answered all of them prior to hiding them. The reason why your name comes up in regards to bad surveys is because of volume. It's rare for anyone else to submit six or more surveys in a row, as you do occasionally. Though you have some good surveys, that volume means that you'll definitely be remembered for the bad ones.

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jonathan
#8 posted November 29, 1999 at 8:48am (EST)  

I don't like the qualification process. It's too complex (several lines of instruction), takes too long, ends up with comments in the responses that could be in the survey responses, is somewhat hidden from view (my default survey selector is "This Week's New" and the unqualified process don't show up), the blackball (one flawed vote will stop qualification) could be used as a form of censorship by people who don't like other surveys, e.g. Jeanne's surveys, and will likely have the net effect of reducing the number of new surveys to such a degree that I will lose interest in SC.


I think there are two goals for the qualification process. One is to help make better surveys, which I believe is currently accomplished by people's comments on surveys. If survey submitters choose not to listen to that feedback and get better, that's their choice. The second goal is to weed out lame and/or repeated surveys, which I think is a good goal but one that could be accomplished by other means. The one that I'd prefer is to have options to filter surveys from particular users that have ratings <50%. That way, all of Brian's "remastered" surveys that I manually hid (because I generally do like surveys from Brian that are rated >50% and wouldn't want to miss them) would be filtered from view.

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jonathan
#9 posted November 19, 1999 at 5:56pm (EST)  

Bug report - in the statistics window, reloading the page changes the average approval ratings in both the best survey creators and most surveys listings.

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jonathan
#10 posted September 19, 1999 at 11:48am (EST)  

There appears to be a bug in the statistics list highest rated creators - I've only got 3 active surveys but my name is showing up on the list.

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