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User Survey for the Penny Arcade Forums

BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
edited November 11 in Social Entropy++
In order to better serve the community as we transition to a new home for these forums, several users have created a User Survey for the Penny Arcade Forums. The survey can be found here:
EDIT: Survey is closed.

The survey will cover your general usage of the PA forums as well as how we might be able to fund a future home for us, along with an open ended response for questions that you might have about this process. The survey is anonymous, with no user data collected, and no login required. All data will be collected in a Google sheet.

This will not be the last time to provide input. It has only been one week since our announcement about the future of the PA forums, and I am certain that future surveys will be distributed by the transition team. But this survey will help guide the transition team through future decisions which affect us all.

Special thanks to @minor incident @Space Pickle @Mazzyx @Inquisitor77 for their hard work in putting this together.

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Sticky! Sticky! Sticky!

    (Thanks Bahamut!)

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Done

  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Sticky! Sticky! Sticky!

    (Thanks Bahamut!)

    https://youtu.be/K05N2jqFHc8

  • ToxTox I kill threads they/themRegistered User regular
    Sticky! Sticky! Sticky!

    (Thanks Bahamut!)

    Homie wants it sticky style

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Thanks for sharing the link

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    I have questions about it.. But don't think talking about them in the open might be the right idea

  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    How long is this survey going to circulate for, anyway?

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I did a survey. When do I get my Chili’s gift card?

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Skeith wrote: »
    How long is this survey going to circulate for, anyway?

    I believe we'll keep it open for about a week.

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  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    I did a survey. When do I get my Chili’s gift card?

    That's for donating blood, not doing a survey.

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Brainleech wrote: »
    I have questions about it.. But don't think talking about them in the open might be the right idea

    Feel free to PM me if you have private questions and you trust me to keep it confidential.

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  • LucedesLucedes Registered User regular
    Magell wrote: »
    I did a survey. When do I get my Chili’s gift card?

    That's for donating blood, not doing a survey.

    instructions unclear

    sorry about all the blood in the survey, that was mine, it’s pretty clean don’t worry about it

  • ElaroElaro Apologetic Registered User regular
    I submitted my form.

    Just to share the info with non-surveyors, there's a payment processor coop called Comradery that might suit us better than Patreon, if only because it's not owned by venture capital.

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Elaro wrote: »
    I submitted my form.

    Just to share the info with non-surveyors, there's a payment processor coop called Comradery that might suit us better than Patreon, if only because it's not owned by venture capital.

    Thanks for the suggestion! We’re looking in to a few options, and this looks like a great one to add to the list.

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    Survey will close on Sunday, November 10 at 11:59PM PST (or, at least, that's the cutoff we have for final responses). We will publish the results on Friday, November 15 in the Future State Planning Center.

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    Full results or summary statistics? On the one hand, I would love to dig in. On the other, I can only imagine how much we'll manage to beat each other over the head with the written comments alone! :)

  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User, Transition Team regular
    enc0re wrote: »
    Full results or summary statistics? On the one hand, I would love to dig in. On the other, I can only imagine how much we'll manage to beat each other over the head with the written comments alone! :)

    Summaries, to be clear. The long form opinion questions got, at times, pretty heated and many also made them not too hard to identify the authors, so it’s going to be best for everyone to just get an overall summary of those, not a word for word reprinting of everything.

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    Yeah free text is a nightmare when doing surveys, and I apologize for suggesting one for the financial section.

    Marty: The future, it's where you're going?
    Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    I don't remember what I wrote I just remember the questions I had
    Like if I cannot pay I cannot go to the new forum? Do new members have to pay to get in? If you do the crowd funding thing and fall short what then?

  • ToxTox I kill threads they/themRegistered User regular
    edited November 7
    Brainleech wrote: »
    I don't remember what I wrote I just remember the questions I had
    Like if I cannot pay I cannot go to the new forum? Do new members have to pay to get in? If you do the crowd funding thing and fall short what then?

    None of these questions have definitive answers but the overwhelming majority of the community seems to be against membership fees, and those few who are even entertaining the idea are in favor of a general "leave a penny take a penny" system for folks to donate to in order to cover any membership fees.

    Nobody is in a position to say there definitely won't be any fees, but nobody really seems to want them either.

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Brainleech wrote: »
    I don't remember what I wrote I just remember the questions I had
    Like if I cannot pay I cannot go to the new forum? Do new members have to pay to get in? If you do the crowd funding thing and fall short what then?

    Hey, just to be clear about one thing: there has never been anything but strong advocacy for the new forums being available to everyone, even if you can’t or don’t want to pay. It will only survive due to folks who can pay, for obvious reasons, but I’m not personally interested in a community gatekept from folks in tighter financial situations, and I think we’d be a worse off community for that.

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    The only discussion of dues being required for membership (and I think I was the principal person to kick it off) was for membership in the 501c7. I'm not even sure I'm advocating for such a thing. It's just common that 501c7's have membership dues and we'll eventually want to discuss it.

    As far as I know everybody, including myself, wants being a member of the forum to be free.

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Brainleech wrote: »
    I don't remember what I wrote I just remember the questions I had
    Like if I cannot pay I cannot go to the new forum? Do new members have to pay to get in? If you do the crowd funding thing and fall short what then?

    Hey, just to be clear about one thing: there has never been anything but strong advocacy for the new forums being available to everyone, even if you can’t or don’t want to pay. It will only survive due to folks who can pay, for obvious reasons, but I’m not personally interested in a community gatekept from folks in tighter financial situations, and I think we’d be a worse off community for that.

    This would also serve as the death knell for any remote chance of recruiting new posters to the forums.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    enc0re wrote: »
    Full results or summary statistics? On the one hand, I would love to dig in. On the other, I can only imagine how much we'll manage to beat each other over the head with the written comments alone! :)

    Summaries, to be clear. The long form opinion questions got, at times, pretty heated and many also made them not too hard to identify the authors, so it’s going to be best for everyone to just get an overall summary of those, not a word for word reprinting of everything.

    Just for some transparency, I'm the one writing these summaries, which meant I read through every user-generated opinion.

    An activity I would not wish on my most hated enemy.

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    Ooh are you gonna do a word cloud

    Marty: The future, it's where you're going?
    Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    oh my god I am so sorry

  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    enc0re wrote: »
    Full results or summary statistics? On the one hand, I would love to dig in. On the other, I can only imagine how much we'll manage to beat each other over the head with the written comments alone! :)

    Summaries, to be clear. The long form opinion questions got, at times, pretty heated and many also made them not too hard to identify the authors, so it’s going to be best for everyone to just get an overall summary of those, not a word for word reprinting of everything.

    Just for some transparency, I'm the one writing these summaries, which meant I read through every user-generated opinion.

    An activity I would not wish on my most hated enemy.

    As someone who just skimmed most of them, without the same analytical intent, I can only say that your sacrifice will be forever appreciated.

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    enc0re wrote: »
    Full results or summary statistics? On the one hand, I would love to dig in. On the other, I can only imagine how much we'll manage to beat each other over the head with the written comments alone! :)

    Summaries, to be clear. The long form opinion questions got, at times, pretty heated and many also made them not too hard to identify the authors, so it’s going to be best for everyone to just get an overall summary of those, not a word for word reprinting of everything.

    Just for some transparency, I'm the one writing these summaries, which meant I read through every user-generated opinion.

    An activity I would not wish on my most hated enemy.

    I think I basically wrote nothing for the free form answers, because I can never think of useful things to say. You're welcome.

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    should do a word cloud

    gotta make the results fully corporate

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    Word cloud doesn't work for this. Let's say we look at the "dealbreaker" question and the big word that comes back is "civility". Does that mean more civility would be a dealbreaker or less civility would be a dealbreaker? You can't tell.

    The only solution is sacrificing Zonugal's mind before the word warp and to read their summary before they are consumed by the chaos gods.

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    enc0re wrote: »
    Word cloud doesn't work for this. Let's say we look at the "dealbreaker" question and the big word that comes back is "civility". Does that mean more civility would be a dealbreaker or less civility would be a dealbreaker? You can't tell.

    The only solution is sacrificing Zonugal's mind before the word warp and to read their summary before they are consumed by the chaos gods.

    I give my body, my mind, my soul, and my spirit to Slaanesh.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Also its very funny to consider using a word cloud for this because a fragment of a word would be in the center of it, supported by two other ways of referring to the same concept next to it.

    I could give y'all three guesses on what was the signature concern expressed in that survey but you'd only need one...

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  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    breakfast?

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • OptyOpty Registered User regular
    Larlar?

  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    Geese

  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Also its very funny to consider using a word cloud for this because a fragment of a word would be in the center of it, supported by two other ways of referring to the same concept next to it.

    I could give y'all three guesses on what was the signature concern expressed in that survey but you'd only need one...

    it's what's for dinner

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    Everything is a food thread, even the word cloud.

    SteamID - Fig-D :: PSN - Fig-D
  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Beans?

  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    She word on my cloud until I brainstorm

  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    Bizarro.

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