What are some things survey creators do that annoy you most?

I really haven't been here long enough for anything to annoy me. I figure it will take me a while to get my bearings around here. But so far everything seems really cool.

create joke surveys that are only meant to tick people off

Ask stupid questions. And use poor grammar and spelling.

1. Forget to pick a category
2. Forget to put a question mark at the end of the question.
3. Has spelling or capitalization/punctuation errors.
4. Answer their own survey in the explanation.
5. Don't supply adequate options.
6. Missing the Other option.
7. Don't have a proportionate amount of positive and negative options.
8. Repeat questions when a survey of the same question is still active.
9. Don't listen to qualifiers or don't check on the survey to make changes if they need to be made.
10. Bad questions with no point.

Answer the survey question in the explanation.
Make a biased survey.
Ignore qualifiers comments.
Reset a survey without changing anything.

not using capital letters. even at the beginning of sentences

You see this at practically all survey sites: a lot of folks (apparently teens and pre-teens) seem to be really grammar-impaired. I guess they think that the only place society is strict with that is in school.

And how about the worst one of all--name calling when his/her survey gets NWs. (Remember that one?) I do very well--someone tried to qualify a survey asking us if we were pregnant. And when we started throwing NWs at this person, we got called "a bunch of doges"! You said back to the creator, "If you don't approve of our voting, that's fine, but name-calling is inappropriate." This creator was using bad grammar and everything--even when the creator called us that name! But I thought it was funny the way the creator called us that name--I chuckle to this day every time I think about it.

I don't believe I HF'd it, but I should have, simply because this creator was such a sore loser.

Speling erors.

-Fail to provide the option I need.
-Do a survey that has been done-to-death.
-Put words in my mouth.

That some of them do not give proper options (does NOT apply to SC!) A recent site, for example, gave 4 options-wanted to know if I'd bought any of these items, like jewelry, watches, etc., in a certain amount of time. I had not, but there was no option for someone who had not, so I could not advance to the next page and was unable to honestly take the survey. For SC, on the other hand, I can't think of anything right now that annoys me all that much; SC could give lessons to the majority of survey sites out there. Like if someone spells something wrong, there are others who tell them about it, correct their grammar, etc. I'd like the qualifying time to be less than it is though. I'd also like to see more "serious" surveys and not as much excrement and sex surveys.

I don't remember that specific survey, but I remember people name calling in qual before. That is annoying, but I think those are usually people that aren't SC regulars. Just people stopping in, trying to start trouble. I think that most SC regulars are above acting like that.

When they do this in qualification:

*Survey Creator* This is a great survey and fine the way it is. Good job!

Before I came to SC, I was a member of another survey site, called Survey Heaven. And as I told someone else here before (OfTheSoul, I believe it was), you wouldn't BELIEVE some of the surveys you would see on THAT site!! It was mostly made up of members very much like the one I mentioned (preteens with bad grammar, etc.). If folks like that tried to submit those types of surveys here, it wouldn't last five minutes in qual before being thrown out the window by HF votes.

I believe the site no longer exists, and it wouldn't be surprising why. Not only did these members have bad grammar, they had dirty minds and were obsessed with "fetish" surveys. They just no doubt abused the site. And the site never had a qualification process, which is why those surveys made it online in the first place. I remember one member trying to use the site as a dating site, using what's supposed to be a survey question to get phone numbers--and this person was only like 11 or 12, for Chrissakes!!!

You are being sarcastic I hope?

This site did not used to have a qualification process. It was a bad mess. Most of the surveys would make you cringe.

Pick their noses in the car?

I've been to some survey sites like that. A really bad one is Mister Poll. (I think that's the name of it.) It's a lot like the one you're talking about. Horrible surveys. Mostly kids playing. Most of the surveys are awful. Like you said, tons of sex and fetish surveys. I spent a few hours on there looking for a survey that spiked my interest. I don't think I found even one. Needless to say, that was my first and final visit to that site.

Nothing really annoys me that much. The main thing would be asking a question again after it was just asked a month earlier.

This does not apply to this particular survey but what bugs me the most is always putting options for answers.
See, in this survey you can only answer by typing something and if you have no opinion; you just move on. Some cases, here's one of OfTheSoul's recent survey's as an example;

"And on the 26th day..." If you celebrated the holiday, what was your day-AFTER-Christmas like?"

4 - It was a lot like Christmas Day, with family, gifts strewn about, eating, visiting, etc.
11- It was a needed day of rest.
0 - I tried to make it as close to how my Christmas Day went as possible.
5 - I went to work and came home and ate and slept.
5 - It was depressing.
1 - It was a day of "cleaning up Christmas", taking down decorations, etc.
7 - It was like any other non-holiday day.
2 - I didn't celebrate Christmas, so--as they say--"the question is moot".
6 - Some day, the creator will provide an option I'll actually be able to select...(OTHER):

This would have been a good survey without the options since everyone mostly essayed their answers anyway...

I'm talking about survey creators commenting on their *own* surveys that it's a good survey, as though no one will notice they are the SC.

Adding or mixing extra meaning and interpretation into answers such that I'm unable to pick any answer. (e.g. "Yes, because I once had an uncle named Joe who had a moustache", where I wanted to say "yes", but the rest of the answer doesn't apply to me).
I dislike surveys that reflect excessive bias to either side of the issue. (e.g. "Do you think it's right to murder unborn babies?")
I dislike surveys that ask a cutesy/pointless paradoxical question ("How can shrimp be 'Jumbo'?")

oh yeah that is funny.

They will learn soon enough that that don't fly

Lately, qualifiers have been annoying me more than survey creators.

Yeah, OfTheSoul mentioned that to me, too.

BTW, did you notice the nice remark I made about you in one of the qualifications? I told another member that you would make a great English teacher.

yeah but I can't spell worth a crap

You know, I tried to join that site (Mr. Poll). But to complete my registration, they said they would e-mail me some kind of ID number in which I would have to enter to complete my registration. But I never did receive the e-mail. (Maybe they found out I was a little too civilized for those types of surveys! )

Yeah, they have their share of bad surveys, too. But on the contrary, one nice thing they have is a system that would allow you to create multiple questions in a single survey. I wish Bill could develop a system like that here at SC.

The main thing is certain survey creators who repeatedly ask the same question over and over, in qual and in Forum. I think you know whom I'm talking about. Also, those who use abbreviations and "kewl speak" in their surveys. See this survey as well...http://surveycentral.org/survey/15691.html

mainly just in qual....do a survey over and over...never make changes but reset them

Overly criticize surveys during qualification, trying to change/expand what the creator intended. Overly quick to censor things.

I used to visit that site. Was fun for awhile, but like you said very childish. What I did like though was that there was no qualification process. You made a survey and it went. Much less frustrating.

The question is what anoys you that survey creators do not qualifiers.

They give inadequate options.

Are you talking about Survey Heaven or Mr. Poll?

They either don't listen to constructive criticism in qualification or they take it personally and complain abouy the qualification process and or the users complaints.

i Agreee Wit marteen.

1. failure to take notice of highlighted spelling errors.
2. poor punctuation.
3. no options or use of inappropriate survey format.
4. repeating surveys that have been done not long ago.
5. ignoring advice from qualifiers.
6. coping an attitude when given advice.
7. using surveys with loaded questions.

Hmmm...well, the vegetable-sex bandit annoyed me...and I LOATHE bad spelling and grammar! What has this world come to? Are we all stupid, or are we becoming lazier with each generation? Even my husband, bless his heart, cannot spell even some of the simplest words. What are we to do? What happened to the days when we strived to put forth our best written form? That's why I'm studying to become a teacher...I want to instill that long-lost desire to write and spell well.

Nothing, yet!!! I'm pretty new to it all, but I thought the feedback I got to my surveys was great -- and even the people who try to take a critique to its exaggerated literal end are fine! Sorry to be such a Pollyanna but "I like it here!"

Once you get hooked, that's it, you're here for good

Some of their questions are like SAT questions. More than one answer is valid, but you aren't given any space to explain. I guess whoever wrote the question, really didn't know what they were asking.

It is annoying when a survey wants my opinion on 50-100 different things but they give me the choices one slow loading page at a time rather than giving me all of the choices on one or two pages.

Misspelling words even though SCers usually try to correct it in qual.
Assuming everyone uses the same currency, measurements, scales, etc.
Restricting surveys to specific users (only males, only heteros).
Improper options, missing options, options that make no sense.

Not have the ratings set up the way they tell you to do it (and say the low number is best on a scale of 1 to 10 when all our lives it's been 10 is the best)

I'm not annoyed when people are trying their level best to do something right. I get annoyed at people or situations that deliberately set out to hurt others for no good reason other than meanness.