On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Zero3<[email protected]> wrote:
> Evan Daniel skrev:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Zero3<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> True, I agree. IMHO it is a fair way to do it as in the Windows
>>> installer: Ask the user kindly, and if he doesn't want to, we shouldn't
>>> force him. Since most of our survey results have disappeared since we
>>> started asking, I take that as a hint that people don't *want to* answer
>>> the surveys - hence I don't think we should try to force them.
>>
>> I read this differently.  If you present the user with "click here to
>> take our survey" they won't.  If you instead present them with "here's
>> our survey; answer the questions and click here to submit, or here to
>> not take the survey" you'll get a lot more responses.  It's not that
>> users don't want to take the survey; it's that laziness wins, and if
>> you stick an extra click in the way you lose most of them.
>
> Hmm. You are probably right. The big problem, however, is still that the
> survey is located on the website... And that we have to launch a web browser
> to display it.
>
> A better (and secure) alternative would be to ask the questions in the
> uninstaller GUI and publish it to Freenet before uninstalling. But that
> would require quite some work...

If by "some work" you mean "solving the general spam resistance
problem in a way that doesn't involve asking the user to solve
captchas because we have good data to suggest he really doesn't care."

Evan Daniel
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