We really should get some surface to survey missiles or something.
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Spring, the time when a young student's thoughts turn to panic as they realize that they still haven't done their research projects, so they decide to spam video game boards trying desperately to gather info so they don't fail.
We really should get some surface to survey missiles or something.
We really should get some surface to survey missiles or something.
Guessing from the title of this thread I thought there was going to be something about miniskirts and terraces opening soon, but no :(
We should design a survey of surveyors. It should be annoyingly long, have questionable methodology and lead to the conclusion that those who spam surveys on a game forum are socially maladjusted, live in their mom's basement and subsist on nothing but Cheetos. I have linked a picture of a possible survey spammer to get you started.
When I start my masters, I'm going to be original and ask you guys for your input on my thoughtful and insanely long survey about WoW, WoW Players and the community... Because it's original...
This thread is full of wrong. It's always the right time of year for Cheetos.
xNocturnalSunx wrote:
When I start my masters, I'm going to be original and ask you guys for your input on my thoughtful and insanely long survey about WoW, WoW Players and the community... Because it's original...
When I needed to do a report on a specific topic for one of my grad. classes I actually did use an online RP venue (an IRC channel - that was back in the day) for part of my field research as doing it offline would have been a bit dangerous. I enjoyed the topic so much and had a lot of research that a couple of years later I expanded it to be my Masters Thesis.
The topic didn't have anything to do with IRC, per se, or online groups or MMORPGs (I hadn't discovered them at the time...probably Ultima Online was the only one around then if I *had* known of them), but using the vehicle of an online RP group for field research was definitely enjoyable.
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They've been hitting me hard at work too. My queue was wide open for two months while everyone was on vacation, now they all are facing deadlines and such.
So what's this about miniskirts and cheetos now?
They've been hitting me hard at work too. My queue was wide open for two months while everyone was on vacation, now they all are facing deadlines and such.
So what's this about miniskirts and cheetos now?
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
I like miniskirts too. Cheetos, not so much.
I don't dislike surveys per se, but most of the people spamming them here have some annoying qualities.
I don't dislike surveys per se, but most of the people spamming them here have some annoying qualities.
I honestly look forward to the surveys just to watch Rhode tear them apart. I know it is probably not a decent thing to do, but I love to watch Rhode completely, and with no regard to feelings, tear these folks apart.
It is like a bullfight, but I don't have to feel bad for the bull.
It is like a bullfight, but I don't have to feel bad for the bull.
Lady Azalysa wrote:
When I needed to do a report on a specific topic for one of my grad. classes I actually did use an online RP venue (an IRC channel - that was back in the day) for part of my field research as doing it offline would have been a bit dangerous. I enjoyed the topic so much and had a lot of research that a couple of years later I expanded it to be my Masters Thesis.
T'ain't fair. I did both my Masters' in the ancient time before both:
1) I knew anything at all about something as frivolous as online gaming (which didn't exit the, anyway); and,
2) professors would have ever allowed as frivolous a topic as playing games.
I actually had to find my research matter in the real world. AFTER walking to classes, six mile each way, uphill and in the snow.
(Did I miss the survey on mitniskirts? Was it illustrated?)
Edited, Mar 27th 2012 3:48pm by Ollamnh
My college roommate did an online survey for her thesis back when such things were relatively new (this would've been 2003 or so, not proto-internet but before it was really the default idea). I can't recall what it was about, I was busy trying to find the distance to a pulsar by measuring the time delays in different images of it lensed by a black hole. The main thing I remember was trying to help her think through all the possible biases to account for, and whether any of them would be more or less pronounced than in real-world studies. I think there were a grand total of three papers on the subject she could find to reference.
She did pick a group she was a part of, which can make folks more responsive.
She did pick a group she was a part of, which can make folks more responsive.
What if we made a section of the forum for surveys?
How cool would that be? You are bored at work, you go into the survey section and just mess with the weirdos in there. Best case you get some interesting survey, Worst case you get to tear people up for the fun of it.
How cool would that be? You are bored at work, you go into the survey section and just mess with the weirdos in there. Best case you get some interesting survey, Worst case you get to tear people up for the fun of it.
Ollamnh wrote:
Lady Azalysa wrote:
When I needed to do a report on a specific topic for one of my grad. classes I actually did use an online RP venue (an IRC channel - that was back in the day) for part of my field research as doing it offline would have been a bit dangerous. I enjoyed the topic so much and had a lot of research that a couple of years later I expanded it to be my Masters Thesis.
T'ain't fair. I did both my Masters' in the ancient time before both:
1) I knew anything at all about something as frivolous as online gaming (which didn't exit the, anyway); and,
2) professors would have ever allowed as frivolous a topic as playing games.
I actually had to find my research matter in the real world. AFTER walking to classes, six mile each way, uphill and in the snow.
(Did I miss the survey on mitniskirts? Was it illustrated?)
Edited, Mar 27th 2012 3:48pm by Ollamnh
While my instinct is to agree with you and board the get-off-my-lawn train, the fact is this IS the real world now. This is what people, most people anyway, do. Online gaming (pc or console), social networking, whatever sub-games are affiliated there, blogging . . .this seems to be what consumes the "average person's" time now.
There was no survey on miniskirts. It was unanimously agreed that we approve. Cheetos seem a bit more split. More to come.
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When I start my masters, I'm going to be original and ask you guys for your input on my thoughtful and insanely long survey about WoW
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It is like a bullfight, but I don't have to feel bad for the bull.
As the joke says: "Sometimes, Senior, the bull, he wins".
Thanks to Noc's post, I'm surprised that nobody has demanded pictures of her clad only in a bathtub full of Cheetos, a miniskirt, or possibly in only a miniskirt but with Cheetos. To beat everyone to the punch, a poll (in a thread on survey spam)!
Noc hasn't been pestered for pictures for at least a couple of weeks, she should post pics:
| In a bathtub full of Cheetos : |    | 0 (0.0%) |
| In a miniskirt: | | 1 (9.1%) |
| In a miniskirt with Cheetos: | | 1 (9.1%) |
| Face it Rhode, we just haven't had a thread with pics for awhile, we'll settle for almost anything.: | | 9 (81.8%) |
| Total: | 11 |
And as required by ancient tradition of any derail: "beer" "bacon".
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There was no survey on miniskirts. It was unanimously agreed that we approve. Cheetos seem a bit more split. More to come.
Moonkissed wrote:
I honestly look forward to the surveys just to watch Rhode tear them apart. I know it is probably not a decent thing to do, but I love to watch Rhode completely, and with no regard to feelings, tear these folks apart.
It is like a bullfight, but I don't have to feel bad for the bull.
It is like a bullfight, but I don't have to feel bad for the bull.
Watching Rhode tear anyone apart is amusing as hell.
Also, I know I've been gone a while, but I want to be sexually harassed too!
Finally, whenever we talk about surveys, I'm reminded of this little nugget from my childhood.
Go to 2m37s.
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
We really should get some surface to survey missiles or something.
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Sir Xsarus wrote:
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
We really should get some surface to survey missiles or something.
Rhodekylle wrote:
Thanks to Noc's post, I'm surprised that nobody has demanded pictures of her clad only in a bathtub full of Cheetos, a miniskirt, or possibly in only a miniskirt but with Cheetos.
She posted a pic of herself in the BDT, but there was no miniskirts or cheetos, as far as I could see.
Edit: I derp hard at quoting.
Edited, Mar 29th 2012 12:33am by IDrownFish
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