The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
User Survey for the Penny Arcade Forums
BahamutZERO
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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.
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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Homie wants it sticky style
I believe we'll keep it open for about a week.
That's for donating blood, not doing a survey.
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sorry about all the blood in the survey, that was mine, it’s pretty clean don’t worry about it
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As far as I know everybody, including myself, wants being a member of the forum to be free.
This would also serve as the death knell for any remote chance of recruiting new posters to the forums.
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.
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.
As someone who just skimmed most of them, without the same analytical intent, I can only say that your sacrifice will be forever appreciated.
I think I basically wrote nothing for the free form answers, because I can never think of useful things to say. You're welcome.
gotta make the results fully corporate
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.
I could give y'all three guesses on what was the signature concern expressed in that survey but you'd only need one...
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
it's what's for dinner