Have you noticed that we are all running out of ideas for surveys?

I think it's slower in general. What i'd like to see is less surveys, more comments. People aren't too interested in discussing things in much depth. They want novelty. I think that's sad.

I suppose so. Just look at things currently created.

I have another theory...

Why yes, I did notice, hence creating this survey.

What would that be?

Yes. It's hard to pick something that hasn't already been done. I have to hand it to those people that are able to pick new and different ones that no one's done yet.

I think that there has been a glut of bad new surveys lately, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that we are running out of ideas. Most of the bad surveys have been done by new users who haven't taken the time to read some good surveys and see how they are properly done and I feel that many have not botherd to read the "Tips for making good surveys" because we are still getting people saying it's for work or school, we are still getting surveys about the U.S. only when the "tips" section tells you to be aware of the different types of people at SC. I think these issues are more of a problem than a lack of new survey ideas. I would rather have fewer new decently done surveys then having a whole slew of bad ones. I get the feeling that some people come to the site, don't read and vote on any of the surveys and start creating one bad survey after the other and get pissy when we point out problems with the survey (a good example would be a recent survey asking how we wanted our steak done). When we pointed out the problems with the survey, the survey creator got rather hostile with us and ended up having the survey HF. It would have taken only a few minor tweaks to fix the survey, but the sc was unwilling to do so and lost out on doing a survey.

I'm waiting for one "I'm doing a market research survey about US products for my business class"

No, not really

I'm glad you are only kidding! (you ARE kidding, aren't you?)

I'd rather not go into it in detail. Suffice it to say that there are a LOT more surveys going into qualification than there are coming out. If you read the other comments above, I think you'll get the idea...

Yeah, I'm kidding. I'm waiting for one like that, only full of typos and grammatical errors, and an option "This survay sux and u sux 2"

I hope that day NEVER comes, but it's inevitable that it will!

I'm half tempted to make one, just to see how long it lasts before HF death. But I won't.

I had a feeling it had something to do with qualification. I kind of got the idea that the reason you made all those crazy surveys to have fun with qualification is because people can be so serious with it.

I hadn't noticed or really thought about it, but I haven't really been here all that long (less than a year) either.

Hmm. I have been avoiding Qual. for a while... and I'm much happier for that being the case .

I'm pretty new here so I haven't probably noticed. I still have a lot of older active surveys to answer when I get around to it.

If you don't, I might take matters in to my own hands!

Yes, quite. And less original too. I thought about this kind of thing when I first joined this site. There must be a point when the collective consciousness runs out of original thought. Then no more SC.

Yeah, it's very funny. Mine, especially, keep getting reworded and recycled

Yes, I noticed that about a year ago.

No.I personally don't.If you don't like my surveys is your problem not mine.

It crosses my mind every now and then - then suddenly I'll be surprised at a sudden influx of good surveys.

I noticed that a while back...

We need new blood! Maybe SC should advertise?

That's true! Maybe some surveys should come back - like; What did you do to help you quit smoking? I was referred to an old survey when I tried to create it - I didn't feel like reading an inactive survey, so I dropped the whole thing and suffered in peace.

I think the qual process in general staunches the flow of new surveys. I'm not exactly complaining, either.

There are always fewer surveys at this time of year. It'll pick up again over the next month.

Yes. I'm very glad somebody else has mentioned it and I think this is probably the best question to come along in a while. Not that it's anybody's fault. Inevitably the ideas will dry up.

Maybe we should have a creativity exersize: Everyone go out in your day to day activities and be more aware of questions that come up and that would make good surveys.

I am "relatively" new, so I can't tell you for sure. I haven't noticed any difference between then and now.

I have a ton of ideas that are just waiting dormant, that I am shocked no one has yet tried them. For some reason, every time I post one of my "new ideas" as opposed to "some over-done bullcrap" that everyone else has done, the new ideas generally get lower ratings. Thus because of this, I try not to be as rating-driven as the average person on here.

My theroy isn't that we're out of ideas, its because of what we value as a good survey. I mean, if you have people giving "good" for every obvious bullcrap survey that has been done a million of times before, and then the new idea is barely struggeling to get an above 50, then yeah, what the fudge do you expect. And then these people wonder why there's no original surveys.

I still don't get it though, what is wrong with making surveys for school?

Nope.

I don't personally have a problem with doing work/school surveys, but there are some here (who shall remain nameless) who totally object to them and will HF them right off the bat. That's why I asked bill to put in the little paragraph in the section on tips for creating surveys NOT to say it's for work or school. Sadly, some newbies don't bother to read it and mention it in their explanation. I try to warn them if I spot it so the survey doesn't get HF.

Yes, I think some surveys should come back. Why not let all the newer folks answer now? I did the same thing you did -- I was referred to an older survey when I recently tried to create one, and I didn't feel like taking the time to reading an inactive survey then, so I deleted my survey-to-be.

To new people like me it seems that there are lots of surveys.

I was originally going to see how long I could keep them in qualification, but there's a whole mob of people with their fingers on the "HF" button. I was laughing my head off just trying to keep up with them. I would no sooner make a change, and there would be a couple of "HF"s up there already.

I do it everytime I'm here. Mostly out of a sense of duty, but I kind of have fun with it too!

So, what's going to be done about it?

I kind of figured that out when you started making suggested changes and thanking people who suggested them. I started making compliments and suggestions in the car survey in hopes it would slow down the HFs and it worked. Unless it was a coincidence.

I made another cheeky survey this morning. I don't know if anyone else will find it amusing, but it sure cracked me up!

Yes. Maybe people should do more surveys about news events in their local area to see what people around the world think.

What's happened to that butt-hole? Did any of their surveys get through so we could find out who they were?

If you are referring to the "how do we want our steak" one, it was hunnybunnybaby that did that one.

I'm half tempted to make a survey "How do you want your mistakes done?"

But I won't

It sounds like you are easily tempted!

Only half tempted though.

Is that the one that said stuff like "fudge you kaleb" in qual?

Not that I recall. She (?) did make a comment somewhat like, "if you dont eat steak then dont answer the fudging survey" or something like that. All we were asking her to do was correct the spelling of "Welcome" (she had spelled it with 2 "l's") and put in options for those who don't eat meat and she copped an attitude at us. We had no choice but to kill the survey.

Admit it...you enjoy being a naughty boi!

Well, I guess that's not up to me. Maybe if the main survey-masters read this, they might consider accepting duplicate surveys sooner than the usual time they allow for it?

Yeah. She(he) had a few surveys going in qual at once. She was the one who failed to see that it was important that surveys made sense grammatically. I find it amazing how some people start off with so much antagonism right from the get go. It's like they come here to unload their hatred.

I wanted it to go to fix-me so I could turn all the 'steaks' into 'mistakes'

I've read some of her comments. I think she/he is probably just an immature kid that thinks they know everything.

Has she gone?

I don't know. The "steak" survey was just last week. One can only hope.

I can't help myself! You keep setting yourself up. (A person's height is measured in half inches, but no one should be expected to estimate approximately how many books or video tapes they own...)

WHOOPS!!! Did I say that?!!

perhaps we should have asked how tall our stacks of movies are, in inches...

yeah, my first survey here that I did was for an essay. A bunch of people gave it a Needs work, so I deleted the comment. If I ever see someone mentioning a school project, I'd warn them so they not only not get any HF, but then even if it passes, some butt-holes will give it a bad rating so that very same stupid reason.

Unforunatly for those people, I hardly ever spend any time in qual, so if there ever is a mention of a shool project, it has already passed qual, and its too late then. I gotta tell you, some people here are real narks when it comes to these things.

Waaaaaaaaah!!! Zang's picking on me!

I know what you mean.

Well, I hope so...

Half-inches!!!

*smooch*

Arrrrrrrrrrrgh!!! Dog germs, dog germs!

Uh huh. Have you seen the surveys: "How many fingers do you have?"
Definitely. Try to think up new ideas.