Proposed amendment to the survey posting amendment.Follow

This, really. Some legit student may actually be looking for gaming sites for information gathering, and would be completely turned away with the new rules. I think there should be a tighter leash around them popping up, but I don't think that is the answer.

This addressed my concerns. I was worried about the actual contributors to the forum who would have been excluded because they couldn't pay for premium. I have no problem with people who are not part of the community having to pay for premium.



Purchasing is misspelled.

It is. my thought was to put together the most restrictive ruleset and then adjust it based on feedback here.

Well, it would be if the survey itself were useful. Too many of them are academic ************ to allow everyone in the process to claim that the person completed a thesis. Very rarely, one comes along and there is a real reason they are researching MMOs, one can often see that in the way they handle things. Those posters seem to get fairly positive feedback; however, the flocks of idiots are enough to discourage one from feeling overly helpful.

Thin out the idiots and everyone, including the survey posters, will be likely to have a better experience.



He was too polite to say it.



I would say that was one of the academic ************ ones.

I'd say if the email address is .edu (or some international equivalent) and the link doesn't have a virus, green light it. If the survey is foolish, or not useful, then the karma system will take care of the rest.

It's not important really, but I'm kinda curious as to how that poll breaks down by game forum the respondents frequent.

I'm doing an approved study right now, and it started out fine--questions about how we interact with guildies/what role they play in our emotional lives, etc.

Then, a few pages in, it's all about how depressed we are, whether or not WoW has ruined our lives, etc. Fine, I get it--you want to know the situation of the person who's giving you these responses. You need to know if they rely totally on their guildies because they've lost all their RL friends. Fine. But one or two questions would suffice for those purposes (example: "Do you feel that you spend too much time playing games?" and "Have you had to make sacrifices in your personal life to play games?"). You only spend 3 pages of survey questions asking about that if you are actually studying it. And it's getting old.

I say surveys that make slight references to gaming addiction are fine--it's likely necessary to evaluate their results if they are asking about things like interpersonal relations and gaming. Anything spending a large amount of time on it shouldn't be approved.