How many surveys are actually worthy of attention? (Try to answer this one despite its unworthiness.)

Some...A few are good for a laugh, a few are good for provoking thought, a few are good at keeping people interested in SC for when a good survey comes along.

I answer all of them, but to be honest I hide quite a few after that because I have no real interest in them.

Most. Even trivial surveys reveal things about how people think.

I think we've all gotten much better at creating surveys - has anyone else notices how the average approval rating seems to have gotten higher? *** EB, I think survey creators have gotten more careful as well. reality, you can thank "lisashea" and "daver" who both asked for this feature (and I caved under pressure).

bill: I think the average approval rating has gotten higher in part because more people are voting rather than leaving it on "no opinion." And because many people didn't want to go back and vote on all the old ones that were created before the rating option, those tend to cluster around 50%. *** bill: I agree, I was just saying I don't think that's the only reason. Yeah, those blue asterisks are great.

I said "most", but I dislike the (ill-defined) phrase "worthy of attention". I mean, from one perspective, we're all wasting our time here and we should lay off the web and write the Great American Novel or become adult literacy tutors or something. From a different perspective, every single survey represents someone's curiosity about a question, and users of this site should respect that and spend the two or three minutes it takes to do their part to satisfy that curiosity.

Almost all of them are worthy of my attention long enough to answer them. I've gotten to the point where I then hide more than half of them immediately after answering. I try to only keep visible the ones that I actually care to see the results of, because that's the only way I can keep looking at old surveys as they change.

'worthy of attention'... hmmm interesting concept

They almost all compel me to at least read what folks have to say in reponse. But I really should be doing something else. So it depends on the exact definition of "worthy".

the ones about cooking, sports, alcohol, and other subjects that i have no opinion on, often i just hit the submit button and move on

all, because it is my OPINION that is highly valuable to spout...

'worthy of attention'? This is my addiction. I've answered very nearly all of the surveys, not because they were worthy or unworthy but because they were there.

I'd prefer %s.. i'd say about a third I come back to and look at. and now that we have the magic blue asterisk, I can see if there has been any changes without having to read through everything again. yay blue asterisk. **yay phi, I finished answering about a week or so ago.. now I have to go through and read all the comments that were put in... eventually I will be able to sort by all modified and be able to keep up daily..