Reading for Pleasure QuestionnaireFollow

Confirmed Approved

I couldn't figure out the first question.

I'm more interested in finding out what got approved and why it needed approval in the first place.

A while back a new forum rule was implemented that required all new "survey" type posts to obtain admin approval or risk being nuked/banned. Not sure why a long term poster would require such approval, but anyway...

Done.

It think you may have it backwards. Reading doesn't inherently make you more successful or encourage you to stay in school longer. People who stay in school might do so simply because they don't mind reading the course material or engaging their minds as much as others. Reading requires thinking which is a type of work, people who are good at thinking tend to not mind the "work" involved in reading and get more enjoyment out of the stories. It just so happens that people who are good at thinking also tend to end up better educated and more successful than those that don't. Always exceptions of course but I think if you take a group of readers and a group of non-readers the readers, on average, are probably more interested in expanding their knowledge than the non-readers.

Well, intelligence is a combination of genetics and early development. Your level of intelligence is pretty much set by the time you're 5 or 6 years old along with your base personality. You can and do refine decision processes after that point but you're generally not going to fundamentally change how intelligent you are once your brain stops making new pathways. I expect being intelligent makes you more likely to enjoy reading but reading does not make you more intelligent. That's not to say reading isn't important, reading gives you the tools you need to demonstrate and apply your intelligence and is absolutely necessary in modern society. What good is intelligence if you have no information to process?

Reading is a byproduct of intelligence, not a cause.

There you go Pigtails. Also there was something at the end saying the creator of that survey would reimburse me for my time. So... whatcha up to later?

Done.

If someone posts a survey internally on the forum itself using the forum poll software, it's automatically allowed. If someone wants to post a link to an external survey, which likely records IP addresses amongst the other data it asks, we wnat to have some oversight. That, and right around midterms and finals times we get hit with a lot of these, of which we only approve a fraction. Many are poorly done repetitions of surveys we have already seen here. some are flat out repeats. others are blatant attempts to harvest character names and enough personal data to attempt to steal accounts. And a large subset of them are biased "gaming addiction" surveys that are usually rather offensivly worded attempts to get people to support the survey posters revoilutionary theory that all gamers are addicted ne'r do wells with major psychological issues. The worst of those generally get forcefully culled.

Long time posters in theory get automatically approved, but since they are generating datasets of our posters which could theoretically contain enough information to assist an attack, I like to be careful and check them over. Especially in the gaming forums, you have people who you know from their posts likely have accounts that would go for high value if sold for money, their IP address, often time specific character names to target, real names, locations, approximate ages, etc. Now take those and extract known data and combine it with a list of most likely passwords, and you get maybe a 1 in 100 account hit.It's a problem, though one that we haven't really encountered to a large degree yet. There have been definite attempts though, which was one of the main reasons for the rule implementation. That and some of the forum sections were getting hit with 10-20 of these per week.

Am I allowed to start thirty threads, each one with a different forum poll question about how MMORPGs turned you into a socially retarded Morlock?

I miss the old uBB's multi-question polling

Possibly, I would at least would be willing to sign his e-mail up to a couple of survey spamming websites or something.