Re: Cutting Census Questions

PPC 2019 Census Announcement by Akrinor on 2019-11-22 17:20:30 UTC Reply

It is time... ahem has been time for quite a bit now for this year's Census. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about: Every year in September, I put up a questionnaire for the PPC asking some questions, like age, fandoms, writing activity, etc; and since it is September 83rd and several people poked me on Discord, I probably should get going on that.

PARTICIPATION IS ENTIRELY VOLUNTARY, BUT ENCOURAGED.

Now, last year, I asked for questions you'd like added to it. As a result, the census got very long (I think the one last ear was over 80 questions), and I'd like to reduce that length. That's why I'm asking both for questions you'd like added, and for questions that really aren't all that useful anymore.

Personally, I'd like to remove the question asking for your name on here. The reason is that it can be possible to derive who gave some answers in some cases. Currently, this is not the case for the "Sexuality", "Gender", or "Where do you live?" questions. It is however the case for the questins that list answers, such as "fandoms", "lust objects", and some of the questins regarding criticisms of the PPC, although participation was low enough in their case that the problematicness is a bit limited.

~Ak

PS: 2017 answers 2018 answers

Re: Cutting Census Questions by Good Mod Addict on 2019-11-22 18:21:19 UTC Reply
Overall, I think that the question that needs to be asked is "what are we trying to learn with this question on the census?" I get that the PPC is a comedic setting and we're a bunch of funny nerds who like a good story before anything else, but I personally feel like that may need to be toned down for the survey questions. After all, how will knowing what piece of DoSAT tech is best-liked help us, as a community, adapt to the needs of our members? If a question doesn't serve a purpose, then there isn't a reason to have it.

(In particular, I think the "What's your favorite [X] in the PPC?" questions can just be a separate Board thread that pops up every once in a while.)
- Geema, who may be thinking about this too hard due to taking one too many psychology classes

I think I can suggest a question by SomeRandomPersonAccount on 2019-11-23 03:15:18 UTC Reply

I think that I can suggest a question, but I do not know whether this was in last year’s consensus.

The question is, who’s your favourite PPC writer?( writer here refers to those who spork fics or write missions).