Survey Central - how many times did you check to see if this site had been fixed during the recent two-day outage?

Are you an avid SC member? During the recent two-day outage of this site, did you experience the "SC DTs" (withdrawals)? Did you break into a frantic frenzy, a cold sweat? Were you unable to occupy yourself with the freed-up time in the absence of SC?

Elect which number of times you frequented the broken-down site during the outage.

Votes	Answer
2	Zero times ................ a fly-by-night member who probably didn't make it back to answer this survey
1	Only once ................ a member who lies
1	Twice is all ................ keeps company with the above member
2	Three times ................ newcomer to SC
6	Four times ................ newcomer to SC but here long enough to bring about a little concern for the outage
4	Five - eight ................ likely to have left alarmed note in Feedback once site returned; needs to discuss this in Forum
6	Nine - twelve ................ still annoyed; people in the immediate area knew to avoid this person until site was remedied
4	Above twelve ................ call this member's local hospital and relay to them that the site is back up and running
2	Half-million ................ to this devoted member, we bid: "God rest their Souls."
10	"What outage?" ................ the more fortunate member who validates the adage "Ignorance is bliss..."

User	Comment
Biggles	posted 13-Jul-2002 9:43pm I missed this.......
juliw	posted 13-Jul-2002 9:54pm probably five or six times,,,mildly disappointed but still found other stuff to do
Amanda	posted 13-Jul-2002 11:01pm Probably 3 or 4 times. I'm not a newcomer, though. I have been busy painting and redecorating my bedroom and haven't had a lot of extra time for the computer. By the way, my bedroom turned out great. I love it so much. Dominic doesn't really like it that much, but he'll deal with it. He was pissed at first, but decided to try to learn to live with it.
confetti	posted 13-Jul-2002 11:01pm A few, I think. I mostly just thought I had done something to screw up my access, and I don't care to remind myself how inadept I am very often.
Jemmy	posted 13-Jul-2002 11:27pm I think about ten, but I checked a whole bunch of times in a row thinking it was my computer.
Zang	posted 14-Jul-2002 1:45am This is the first I've heard of it. I was away on a little vacation for a few days. I guess I picked a good time.
darkshadowsseeker	posted 14-Jul-2002 4:49am Above 12 and then I gave up and went to the coast for 2 days. The site was back up and running when I got back late Saturday night.
moonstone	posted 14-Jul-2002 8:23am I checked about 3,453,634,253.7 times.
NthenSome	(reply to moonstone) posted 14-Jul-2002 10:41am Was the .7 portion your last, serious thought to check but not followed through?
Enheduanna	posted 14-Jul-2002 11:13am Probably at least half a dozen. SC is one of my favorite study breaks. But I wasn't alarmed or panicky, and I did not feel the need to discuss it in Feedback or Forum, or to make a survey about it!
NthenSome	(reply to Enheduanna) posted 14-Jul-2002 11:31am I should have had another option: A Million Times ....... the dork member who is bound to create a survey on the subject.
southernyankee	posted 14-Jul-2002 12:14pm twice on Friday. And I didn't get a chance to get on Thursday anyway. I had never relised it was a two day thing, until I have checked the Feedback and Furum. I wanted to see if it was just me or everyone for an entire day. Turned out it was actually 2 days. On the bright side, the extra day that I missed, no one else got on, thus one day less for me to catch up on what I missed.
Enheduanna	(reply to NthenSome) posted 14-Jul-2002 12:46pm Although I suppose it's a question you might think of regardless of how many times you checked!
cuteasabutton	posted 14-Jul-2002 2:06pm I was checking it about every 2 minutes. All day long. for about 8-12 hours. So... over 12 times.
Frostbrand	posted 14-Jul-2002 4:21pm I clicked Reload over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over andover and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again! I think I have carpal tunnel now.
NthenSome	(reply to cuteasabutton) posted 14-Jul-2002 4:50pm I think we can safely say you're an "avid" member. I checked myself every time I had a second (and thought about it). Amazing how people have grown to really miss the place when it's unavailable to them for such a short period of time. We're SC-Junkies!
cuteasabutton	(reply to NthenSome) posted 14-Jul-2002 8:13pm Yes, I am! Self admited
GinsInn	(reply to NthenSome) posted 14-Jul-2002 11:00pm Well, I'm not ready to admit to being a total junkie yet but I sure do love this place!
NthenSome	(reply to GinsInn) posted 14-Jul-2002 11:54pm You checked a lot, come on, admit it!
GinsInn	(reply to NthenSome) posted 15-Jul-2002 12:06am Every chance I got There Are you happy now You always had a way of making me confess
NthenSome	(reply to GinsInn) posted 15-Jul-2002 12:37am Heh heh...
grmbrand	posted 15-Jul-2002 8:12am Five to eight. Tried contacting Bill by mailing webmaster@surveycentral.org, but that didn't work, so I just kinda laid low.
moonstone	(reply to NthenSome) posted 15-Jul-2002 8:57am Exactly. Survey Central is "my time" on the computer when I have a break in my day from being Mommy...so I didn't know what to do when it was down!
Dino	posted 15-Jul-2002 9:41am About 8 times on Thursday. Then about 10 times on Friday - nearly on the hour every hour. Then ran home and checked it again and found it on but painfully slow. I decided to have an SC break for the full weekend.
ASB	posted 15-Jul-2002 11:00am About half a million before I started emailing bill and people I know he has contact with. Romkey ultimately passed the message to bill and he fixed the site.
ASB	posted 15-Jul-2002 11:06am To everyone who missed the site terribly when it was down. SUBSCRIBE This site depends on your financial contributions to stay alive. http://surveycentral.org/Subscribe.html bill does not have to keep this site running. He could shut it down at anytime if he wanted to. Make it worth his while and subscribe. It is not very expensive. I will be subscribing again with 2 months.
anonymous	(reply to ASB) posted 15-Jul-2002 11:23pm This message has been brought to you by ASB, SC, and the following liberal groups... The "PayUP Society", the "Send Po' Bill Some Mo' Bills Group", and "More Cash, Less Crash", all supporters of the site. Ask your doctor if YOU need SC. Side effects reported with the use of SC include headaches, fever, sweaty palms, slight dementia and occasional death by starvation or dehydration. Of course, keep all keyboards out of reach of adult members.
mikehunt696	posted 16-Jul-2002 1:37pm What outage? When was the site down? I was on vacation all last week and was visiting friends in Eastern Oregon. What days was the site down?
NthenSome	(reply to mikehunt696) posted 16-Jul-2002 2:29pm Well, that answers the question of your absence. It was down for a few days late last week. NthenSome again over the weekend. You didn't even see the CNN all-day coverage about it? Man! How far 'eastern' in Orgeon do these friends of your live?
Dino	(reply to NthenSome) posted 17-Jul-2002 5:54am Will this be one of those events. Were were you when SC went down for two days. Like Kennedy or Princess Diana.
mikehunt696	(reply to NthenSome) posted 17-Jul-2002 2:00pm The Madras/Prineville area. As I said in another reply, I was none to glad to leave what with the forest fires going on in the area.
Oscar	posted 17-Jul-2002 7:50pm Only once, but I'm not lying BASTARD.
NthenSome	(reply to Oscar) posted 17-Jul-2002 9:39pm
Cleo	posted 17-Jul-2002 11:11pm The first option is cute but so true. I tried to tap SC several times late Wednesday night.When I couldn't get on,I thought it was my server(MSN).......AGAIN. So like an idiot I kept trying & trying & trying & trying. On Thursday morning I tried again & I still couldn't get on. So then I started thinking that I had tapped a virus on another site by mistake. & began to think that now my puter was infected with some horrible virus that wouldn't let me on SC. (in a state of paranoia at this point) I started thinking,"Oh my gosh! Now I've really gone & done it,I've totally crashed Bills site!" Oh,oh, I'm in deep ^&$% now! Then on Friday morining again no SC. By this time I started E mailing people(you know who you are)telling them I was having a hard time getting on SC.Hoping against all hope that they didn't suspect,that I had anything to do with the downing of the site. A few loyal SC junkies(you know who you are)e-mailed me back & we were having a little mini SC of our own. I still owe you an e-mail Dino. What a cool chick,ASB was to e-mail me & tell me what the problem was. Boy was I was relieved to know that,I hadn't single handedly crashed Bills site. sigh of relive* But by then it was too late,I was already experiencing SC withdrawals (tho I would NOT admit it to anyone & played it off calm cool & collected) stand up & proudly proclaims Hi! My name is dabprovin & I'm SC junkie & I need help! clapping,clapping,clapping Welcome dabprovin!
Cleo	(reply to ASB) posted 18-Jul-2002 12:05am I already subscribe! Yay! BTW Thanks for E-mailing me & letting me know what the problem was.
romkey	posted 18-Jul-2002 1:09am i was in vegas with bill, jen and lion
Dino	(reply to romkey) posted 18-Jul-2002 6:41am is jen alright? She seemed pissed in forum. No-one meant any harm.
ASB	(reply to Cleo) posted 18-Jul-2002 7:40am No problem chick
romkey	(reply to Dino) posted 18-Jul-2002 8:57pm hmmm... you'd have to ask Jen. Bill did end up spending a bunch of time working on the systems instead of doing Vegas things, like having hookers thrust pamphlets advertising their services into his hands - no wait, that happened more than enough as it was. I don't know if Jen was pissed but I'm sure she would have been a lot happier had there not been a problem. And sometimes folks do become pretty demanding... I have problems with that with the users on the system I run (apocalypse.org). I haven't read all the forum messages so I don't have an opinion on them. I feel a bit bad for letting him know there was a problem, on the other hand, I'd have felt worse for withholding information and I think he'd already figured out there was a problem.
Oscar	(reply to NthenSome) posted 19-Jul-2002 5:13pm That's funny. When I wrote that comment I was really angry at you, but now I think it's funny. (not angry at you per se, but at you as the creator of the survey)
NthenSome	(reply to Oscar) posted 19-Jul-2002 5:28pm I guess the answers were pretty arbitrary, come to think of it. Oh, well, at least you ended up laughing, haha!
Cleo	(reply to ASB) posted 19-Jul-2002 5:40pm ((((hugs))))
Wicksy	posted 24-Jul-2002 7:41am About 10 times
Iseult	posted 21-Aug-2002 8:54pm What? I didn't even know about this. I was without Internet for a such a long time.

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