Evan Daniel skrev: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Zero3<zero3 at zerosplayground.dk> wrote: >> Evan Daniel skrev: >>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Zero3<zero3 at zerosplayground.dk> 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."
The uninstallation survey is just as spamable right now without a CAPTCHA or the like :). Unless of course Google has some fancy anti-spam measures in place. - Zero3
