I've a project I need your help with

[ebtwisty9]

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[Piratecat]

Since this is about computer games, I'll slide it into the software forum.

 

[Arkhandus]

If you haven't already, ebtwisty9, I would suggest you cross-post your request on the www.rpg.net forums, where you're likely to get more attention, since RPGnet is more broadly oriented. That's about the only thing it's got going for it, but it does at least have a broader variety of posters and lurkers, I think.

 

[ssampier]

You don't need us. Go to any technology company or major university, offer free pizza and (root) beer and you'll meet lots of mmorpgs players.

If that doesn't work, a "snowball" sample should help.

 

[ssampier]

double post

 

[ebtwisty9]

You don't need us. Go to any technology company or major university, offer free pizza and (root) beer and you'll meet lots of mmorpgs players.

If that doesn't work, a "snowball" sample should help.

those who have already played mmorpgs sometimes have a biased view, especially if they can recognize the games that I have posted. I need both non-players as well as players in order to balance out the bias and for my research to be as well-rounded as possible

If you haven't already, ebtwisty9, I would suggest you cross-post your request on the www.rpg.net forums, where you're likely to get more attention, since RPGnet is more broadly oriented. That's about the only thing it's got going for it, but it does at least have a broader variety of posters and lurkers, I think.

I did post it there, but the forum mods thought I am spamming, and therefore banned me. I've sent an e-mail to the administrators explaining my circumstances with adequate proof that my project is real and that I am not a spammer; but no reply or appologies yet

 

[Asmor]

With all due respect, ebtwisty, some (myself included) would consider what you're doing to be spam.

 

[ebtwisty9]

I guess that is my main problem: I do have a project and presentation day is approaching in two months' time. I have a hard time trying to convince people that my project exists without completely exposing myself to the world: providing information about my school and possible contact information that will trace to my being.

Privacy is also one of the reasons why I choose to use a personal forum as a means to collect data rather than using the research tool provided by my school, as that tool contains school information.

If you were me in this situation, what would you do in order to get the widest possible range of people to take your survey as possible and to convince everyone that you are not a spammer?

 

[Piratecat]

Well, I'd let people know it's only three questions. That'd help. You'll also get more responses if you let people know what your paper's premise is.

In general, people are much more interested in helping someone who they "know." From my experience, posting regularly about MMORPGs on a MMORPG site and linking the survey in your sig is going to net you a lot more interest than doing drive-bys on tangentially related sites.

 

[Blackrat]

Well, I'd let people know it's only three questions. That'd help. You'll also get more responses if you let people know what your paper's premise is.

That would help. Now that PC said it's only three questions I decided to give it a look. And answered. One thing though. That security code thing is perhaps good to prevent bots from messing your survey but it made answering unnecessary hard. It's so hard to make out what those numbers are supposed to be that I had to try 3 times before I got it right.